Palm App Catalog
Total Apps: 97
Opened: June 6, 2009
As the latecomer to the next-gen smartphone OS market, arriving this summer, it makes sense that Palm’s App Catalog (which is still in beta) is also the least developed. If Apple’s App Store is a teenager dealing with the angst of limitations imposed upon it by its parents, and Nokia’ Ovi store is a toddler just learning to walk, Palm’s App Catalog is still a fetus. At the time of publishing, it offers less than 100 apps.
Fortunately, most of them are free, since Palm only opened up paid capabilities for the App Catalog a week ago (and only even offered the public SDK, the toolkit programmers need to make apps, on July 16).
As a rule of thumb, quality is extremely high. You won’t find six different Twitter or Craigslist apps just yet, but the ones that have made it to the App Catalog should work just fine while you wait for developers to flesh out alternatives. And the experience of browsing and downloading generally went smoothly for us.
Unfortunately, Palm offers only a peek at WebOS apps through the Web, with no way to browse or download them without a phone.
And if you have any doubt that developers have interest in WebOS, go no further than PreCentral.net, where you can currently peruse 245 half-baked apps going through beta. In other words, lots of new choices are coming soon.
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