Palm App Catalog Reaches 1,000,000 Download Mark
By James Falconer on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 6:33 AM PST In Palm, Palm Pre, Sprint
According to a new report from Medialets, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) has reached a very important goal. They’ve managed to hit the 1,000,000 app download mark on June 24th… that’s almost 20 days after initial hardware launch. Slow at best, but the progress has been following a smooth upward trend, as more and more folks are able to get their hands on the Palm Pre.
A few days ago Will reported on the Pre App Download numbers to that point. Palm had reached a number just shy of 700,000 this past weekend. In comparison to the numbers reached by the iPhone and the App Store, these numbers certainly pale in comparison (in the first month Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) managed to push over 60 million apps to the iPhone and iPod Touch) … But don’t lose hope yet. It’s not all bad news, in fact, the news for Palm and Sprint (NYSE: S) is looking somewhat optimistic, when you take into consideration the limited number of apps available:
“still comparing at the 1 million mark, the average Palm Pre user had downloaded 26x the number of apps that iPhone users had, and the average app in the App Catalog experienced 16x the number of downloads that apps in the App Store had experienced.”
Palm has shown tremendous support for the developer community, and that’s exactly what they need to do now. Show the developers some love, release the SDK, and help them in any way possible to develop for webOS and the Pre… Before you know it, we’ll start to see more and more apps pop up in the App Catalog… Which is exactly what needs to happen. At the moment, only 30 apps are available for download via App Catalog.
Palm has laid down a nice foundation… Now, can they build something very substantial on-top?
[Via: PreThinking]
As an iPhone user (who is posting this from an iPhone), I love my iPhone. At the same time, I am very happy to see the pre taking off. Maybe finally the US can compete with the rest of the world when it comes to advance handsets. Like the iPhone, it is a shame that the pre is tied to a specific carrier. Maybe one day consumers will have more freedom.
Don’t you think the main reason for the 60 million downloads on iPhone is that the hardware was launched long before the AppStore?
I love iPhone, just being objective.