Palm Revamps Its Mobile Software Site

Well look at it this way, Palm through their Addit and My Centro applications has always had an "app store" or at least the half-assed beginnings of an app store. Now at least they have their whole ass in the mix.

Screw convergence
Palm III->Visor Deluxe->Visor Platinum->Visor Prism->Tungsten E->Palm LifeDrive->Palm TX
Visor Pro+VisorPhone->Treo 180g->Treo 270->Treo 600->Treo 680
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here's one for your hipster doom blog -

http://bleedtheworld.com/

Used it!

Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #474: Cheer
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/chronicles-of-depression-20-474-cheer/

Actually, I wasn't aware. If this is a test case, Nova will be trash.

But since the remark was utterly sarcastic, I think it still applies...

;-)

Interestingly, there was just an article in Network World today about the superiority of Apple's App Store.

Here is the link:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/121508-iphone-economy-spur-better-phones.html

Notable quotes from the article:

In addition to ease-of-use for end users, the [Apple's] App Store also has made it dramatically easier for developers to build applications. As a result there are now 10,000 apps in the store, a figure disproportionately high for the number of iPhones on the market, compared to other phone platforms.

Prior to the App Store, developers had to negotiate with operators to convince them to preload the application on phones, sometimes offering the application to users for free or including the application in a portal where users could buy it.

The authors didn't even bother to mention Palm until page 3 of the 4 page article, and then only in a negative light.

[Avi] Greengart [of Current Analysis] paints a bleak picture for phone makers in the months come. Many economists predict that at the very least the first half of 2009 will be grim. That's the time frame during which Nokia's N97, as well as Android phones from manufacturers such as Motorola, are expected to arrive. In addition, if Apple sticks to its typical 12 month product cycle, it may release a new iPhone around June, Greengart said. Yet they'll all be selling to a market of consumers and businesses that are reluctant or unable to spend money. "Even in the best case scenarios I've been reading about, it doesn't sound like the first half of '09 is going to be a pleasant time to be launching products," he said.

Phone makers that experts say will be in particularly precarious positions include Motorola, Palm and Sony Ericsson, three companies that are already in trouble.

Even if you disagree, as I do, with author's assessment of whether or how users downloaded apps to their phones such as Palm in the past, the fact that the once mighty Palm is now a bit player in their own market IS the news of this article. NOT a pretty picture.

Brent

Palm Vx -> Long wait -> Palm T|X

a slick

http://m.palm.com/appstore

would have been better

Often difficult to search, but I agree easy to buy and install. What kills the iTouch and iPhone is the upper limitation on applications - the dummies limited it to less than 150 apps TOTAL, and they force a few on you that you can't remove even if you use a better one (weather, etc.). I have already maxxed out the apps (naturally) just in freeware, and it's a constant struggle to see what ones I want to kill off. Until they increase the allowable number of apps installed (and hopefully implement a launcher that allows me to CATEGORIZE rather than dump everything in a big bucket to sort through), I'll probably stay away from purchased apps because there's little to no space to add them!


Paying my annual PDA update tax to Palm since 1997.

maybe next time you'll vote Republican, dummy.

Vote Republican? After the Reagan Betrayal?

Never, ever again.

The NY state budget is a disaster zone. Actually what's actually got a lot of people irate is that Paterson's budget doesn't (yet) call for a tax increase on millionaires, of which we have no shortage in this state, despite the fact that he's cutting money out of things deemed essential: $2 billion out of education, $3.5 billion out of healthcare, etcetera.

He may be waiting and letting the Assembly take the hit for putting that clause into the budget.

I think joad should get Weird Comment of the Year Award.

Really. That's better than some of Gekko's!

Hey! I resemble that remark!

- http://home.bellsouth.net/coDataImages/p/Groups/141/141946/folders/90328/603678clown1.jpg

>>>AFAIC the iTunes store isn't much better and is somewhat worse in ways (pages and pages to sift through with no hierarchy)

At least you can sort by Popular and by Date.

But yeah, man, most download sites blow for ease of use - including eBook stores!!

Dammit, these are using COMPUTERS! Computers EXIST to do sorting!!