On Feb 5, 4:44 pm, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: > They need alliance with other big players - wonder if Palm and, say, > Amazon could converge on app store synergy somehow? IOW, Palm needs a > more vibrant app store story.
I think Palm is too small to compete with Apple, Blackberry, Google, Nokia and maybe a revived Microsoft all by itself. It seems that you need to attract developers and provide easy access to contents (like iTunes and the store), and this favors big players. From Sep-Nov 2009 (strange quarter limits, BTW), they shipped 783k phones and sold 573k of them. Now this doesn't include December, so let's say that from Oct-Dec 2009 they shipped a million phones. Blackberry shipped more than ten millions, Apple close to 9 mio plus maybe 4 mio iPod Touches. Given those numbers, I'm not surprised that they had trouble attracting developers with about 1,000 apps in their store on Jan 1, 2010 (http://www.precentral.net/app-catalog-hits-1000-apps). I just hope they don't get bought by Microsoft, since they totally botched the Danger acquisition ("Sidekick"). My money is on Blackberry since their OS is built around email and is not a general purpose OS like the Palm Pre, Android or iPhone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
