It has been just over two weeks since the launch of the Palm Pre, and Sprint stores sold out fast, not that there were many handsets built in the first place. Palm was not going to get their way as they imagined. They had hoped to take the fight to the Apple iPhone 3G, but apple were having none of it, and with the launch of the Apple iPhone 3G S, things have now become a lot tougher for the Pre.
Gizmodo are reporting that Medialets have download statistics for Palm’s App Catalogue. Palm was hoping that this would become very popular for them, but the results are looking a little bit sad at the moment. According to the report, the Palm App Catalogue has only had around 700,000 WebOS application downloads.
This result does sound good, and we have to remember that this figure is for two weeks, and when you look at the first month that the iPhone AppStore had been in service, there had been 60 million apps downloaded.
The biggest problem that the App Catalogue has is its lack of WebOS apps. When this app store was launched it had just 18 apps, it now has 30 apps, compare that to Apple who had 500 apps at its launch. Apple have since hit the one billionth app download. Palm needs to do something fast, otherwise the Pre will suffer badly, they need at least a thousand apps before word catches on about how good the Pre is.
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Not Oranges to Oranges comparison. iPhone users had no apps for a v long time. Then when the market was full of iphones, the store opened. Naturally the download frenzy was much more heated. Do you have stats for the amount of meaningless fart and lighter apps people downloaded? Palm is aiming for less dross.
Still Palm must get to market quickly as there is no time to waste. The market now has Apple and Android markets to compare with – so that point is well taken. Ovi store from Nokia is amazingly underwhelming for a large confident corporation. I hear that the Brew and GetJar stores are the two non-Apple stores that have done the best for mobile apps.
I think Palm has a real chance to make it. From what I’ve seen of the webOS book and hints about the SDK, it seems a breeze for savvy web developers to use.