As autumn rears its welcome head here in South Florida, my thoughts always turn to technology, technology, technology. I start thinking things like, “Where’s that new cell phone I’ve been waiting for?”
Well, Palm has promised that the new Palm Pixi will be ready for market in time for the holidays, so it looks like I’ve got something to look forward to. What’s even more promising, however, is that there appear to be a buncha new webOS apps in the App Catalog just dying to be downloaded to your Pre. Of course, this would be just idle speculation on the part of someone who didn’t actually OWN a Pre, because the only way to see the apps available on the App Catalog is via the Pre.
Until now:
App Catalog on Palm's website
Palm has created a section on their website that lays out some of the details of all the apps in their App Catalog. Even though it’s on their USA site, Canadian apps are still included in the list. Each of the apps are broken down into categories, which is how it’s arranged when you’re browsing through the apps on your Pre. However, there is only a short description of the app and the capability to see a bigger picture. User ratings of each app and their opinions are not shown.
Looks like Palm’s finally got one up on Apple, who still doesn’t list their apps on their website. You have to view them through iTunes.
No iTunes, no lookee.
Looks like Palm is taking good steps to differentiate itself from Apple. This is good, Apple doesn’t play all that well to the non-hip crowd.
It doesn’t show “all” of the apps – but it does show a lot of them, which is pretty nice.
You’re correct. And the sampling’s gotten a bit larger since I wrote this post.