A Second Opinion On Palm’s Pre App Numbers
June 19, 2009 ·Filed Under Technology News
The Pre is emerging as a polarizing device, even more so than the G1 (which everyone agreed was kind of beta), probably considering it’s the closest thing to a valid threat that the iPhone has faced. Who wouldn’t get defensive? With strong sales in its first two weeks and an entirely new OS for developers to do their thing with, it’s strong out of the gate but controlled — considering the jockey is holding the reins tight. Palm didn’t expect a dynamite launch or a million app sales in a week; what they’ve got so far is, whether we
Of course, the TechCrunch network is a treasure trove (a rat’s nest, some would say) of opinions, and we have been known to attack the Pre (savagely and repeatedly) despite our interest in it. The app sales numbers for the Pre need more context than a direct comparison to the iPhone App Store, but that is an fundamental info point, so let’s do it thoroughly.




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