WebOS Apps Stand Out Because There's Less Competition
- By Brian X. Chen
- June 2, 2010 |
- 4:45 pm |
- Categories: Phones
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Hungry to earn a buck, many programmers are making apps for the two leading mobile platforms: Apple's App Store and Google's Android OS. But a few developers say they feel luckier playing with the underdog: Palm.
"I made some of the crappiest apps for the Pre, and Palm is giving me $1,000 for each," software programmer Pete Ma (right) bragged to Wired.com last week during a developer conference, adding that each of his five apps took less than an hour to code.
Ma submitted five apps to Palm's Hot Apps challenge, a contest designed to attract developers to the comparatively diminutive WebOS platform serving apps to Pre and Pixi customers. The incentive? A $1 million prize pool rewarding up to 221 apps based on their ranking. The top-ranked app will win $100,000, the next 20 apps will earn a $20,000 reward, and the subsequent 200 apps will win $1,000 each. Currently, the top-ranked app in the competition is Pandora, a popular music-streaming service. Ma says his apps are in the running for the smallest of the awards.
Though many credit Palm for pioneering the smartphone, the company has struggled in the mobile space for the past few years. And as an app platform, Palm's WebOS barely registers. Apple's iPhone currently leads the app race with a massive 200,000 apps, and Google's Android platform follows with 50,000 apps. Palm's WebOS App Catalog, by comparison, serves about 2,800 apps.
A Palm spokesman estimates that there are more than 1 million WebOS users total. That number is pitiful compared to the 90 million iPhone OS users (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad customers). Meanwhile, Google says 100,000 Android phones are activated every day.
Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/hp-palm-webos/#ixzz0pl3zcUxQ"I made some of the crappiest apps for the Pre, and Palm is giving me $1,000 for each," software programmer Pete Ma (right) bragged to Wired.com last week during a developer conference, adding that each of his five apps took less than an hour to code.
Ma submitted five apps to Palm's Hot Apps challenge, a contest designed to attract developers to the comparatively diminutive WebOS platform serving apps to Pre and Pixi customers. The incentive? A $1 million prize pool rewarding up to 221 apps based on their ranking. The top-ranked app will win $100,000, the next 20 apps will earn a $20,000 reward, and the subsequent 200 apps will win $1,000 each. Currently, the top-ranked app in the competition is Pandora, a popular music-streaming service. Ma says his apps are in the running for the smallest of the awards.
Though many credit Palm for pioneering the smartphone, the company has struggled in the mobile space for the past few years. And as an app platform, Palm's WebOS barely registers. Apple's iPhone currently leads the app race with a massive 200,000 apps, and Google's Android platform follows with 50,000 apps. Palm's WebOS App Catalog, by comparison, serves about 2,800 apps.
A Palm spokesman estimates that there are more than 1 million WebOS users total. That number is pitiful compared to the 90 million iPhone OS users (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad customers). Meanwhile, Google says 100,000 Android phones are activated every day.
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