The app store was launched July 10th 2008 not sometime in June. The app started taking in apps May 30th 2008 with 5 apps starting and in the next 40 days grew to 632 apps. By the time the app store opened there were an estimated 6 million iPhones in circulation world wide with at least that number of iPod Touch units. So the application sales figures are for ALL App sales not just iPhone App sales. Meaning that 60 million application downloads in a month are shared 12 million+ units.

However, the numbers are problematic because Apple doesn’t distinguish between iPhone and iPod. In some cases it lumps iPhone sales with iPod sales and in other cases it lumps iPod Touch sales in with iPhone sales. It doesn’t provide any clear cut numbers as to how many iPod Touch units it’s actually sold versus non-touch iPods versus iPhones.

Another problem is that Apple sells apps on two platforms. One is a phone and one is not. Palm doesn’t have that distinction. It’s only selling one product, a phone. It hasn’t had a year to generate interest and get developers on board. It isn’t building the Pre off an already successful product line (e.g. iPod). And it doesn’t have deep pockets and a huge marketing budget. Palm is a tiny company compared to Apple. So no amount of number wrangling is going to create a “fair” comparison.

http://poweredbysteam.com/2009/01/iphone-sales-by-quarter/
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rDayu8yMUyMZo0r92-R3KBQ

I rarely see any numbers of the Blackberry App World. As a Verizon wireless customer, unfortunately neither the Pre or the iPhone are relevant to me (yet!), but would be interested to see how the Bberry App World has been doing..

If that is the case, than even a small increase in users will mean a dramatic decrease in apps/user.

If that is accurate, you might want to consider running an update with the new numbers, I think you’ll be quite surprised to see the comparison is not accurate.

Great article nonetheless…Thanks!

The only correct overall tone/agenda is Multi-Platform competition:

1. it reduces costs
2. serves tech development and tech investment
3. keeps your work from looking like an advertorial

And your work, sentence by sentence, while it is definitely your fair opinion and your fair analysis… but you don’t error on the side of:

encouraging competitors to iPhone / Apple
encouraging competitors to GOOG search

And TC certainly could be a CrossFire style blog… where certain writers have certain agendas, but if thats to be the case, you shouldn’t claim you’re not the GOOG/APP fanboy… you should don the Ayatollah singlet, and be the bad guy in the storyline with Gusto!

http://bit.ly/7DLCp

But he? you gotta proof yourself all over again so take on the others small fry show them your still in the game. Yeah they probably think yer a “Big mouth now”. You feel cocky, You don’t know actually like walking on a glass floor you do.

Yer confident in control no looking back, Look at them yer fans they cheer for you. No more mistakes.

Thats it let go that false sense of control just go “All Out”. The more freedom yer fan base gets the bigger yer popularity asset, Yeah pump those muscle as you do they will to control that.

I have decided to go with the Pre, I do a lot of business, multitasking is very much needed to make time and organization more efficient and its integration with the internet capabilities is exactly what I am looking for. If it wasn’t, who knows, I’d probably go with the iPhone. But give it a rest, people. Palm will do fine. They are targeting a completely different demographic than the iPhone. iphone is more friendly for 10 year olds and up. Palm has a more business minded model and has done amazing with the new platform its established and will polish and they will build a strong following. They can’t blow iPhone out, again, the user base for iPhone is wider.

It makes no sense all this fighting, people will buy what suits their needs.

Also, keep in mind that WebOS is perfectly suited for enterprise applications. If all plays well Pre may become strong competitor to Blackberry in the enterprise market. iPhone enterprise market is non-existent and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a large number of enterprise WebOS apps in addition to consumer ones.

Apple could compromise by permitting a certain number of 3rd party apps to multitask. Let the users choose which apps they want to multitask.

Guess which phone is actually faster? The iPhone wins hands down over the Pre.

http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3587

That being said, Palm needs to open up the SDK to the little guys. They’re the ones that make the App(le) Store a great place. Not the big guys.

Once you have the application, how do you get ahead of the rat race in the app stores of each of these firms to get your app discovered? We’ve create an application network for PC applications at W3i (http://www.W3i.com). Is there an application network model in mobile?

I also like how the browser doesn’t crash all the time.