May 10th 2010 | Posted by
Dieter Bohn
A quick look at our webOS Apps Gallery reveals a nice number: if you add up all the downloads from the App Catalog, Beta, Web Distributed, and Homebrew apps, you’ll find that webOS users have downloaded apps more than 55 million times and if you include patches and downloads from other repositories that number is surely much higher. That number likely includes upgrade downloads as well as new downloads.
While we still don’t know how many Palm Pre and Pixi phones have been sold to put that number in context, if we had to guess we’d say that number is still relatively small – making the 55 million download count look fairly decent proportionately.
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March 11th 2010 | Posted by
Dieter Bohn
Checking the data in our webOS App Gallery, we noticed today that Palm has topped over thirty million downloads from the App Catalog. Palm provides three ways to download apps directly now (and we have App Galleries for them all):
If you total up the downloads for all three app distribution models, Palm has served up a total of 33,749,305 downloads as of this writing. If you add in the 5.8 million downloads from PreCentral’s own Homebrew App Gallery and the many patches and other homebrew apps served up by WebOS Internals via Prewar, the total number of apps and patches downloaded by webOS users easily exceeds 40 million. Updates to apps likely count as another download, so that number isn’t necessarily a good indication of the number of webOS devices out there.
The most-downloaded app in the Official App catalog is Pandora, with 1.2 million downloads – see the full list of most-downloaded apps here. Unsurprisingly, the apps that make up the most popular webOS apps have all been around for a long time on webOS – which is to say that the new 3D games have yet to even crack the top 100 most-downloaded webOS apps (Asphalt 5 Free clocks in at 104).
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October 12th 2009 | Posted by
Juventino Quinones
It has been just over a week since the webOS 1.2.1 update came to all of us Pre users in the US. Along with that update we received iTunes sync once again, and with that, the cat and mouse game was on for another round. Well, DoubleTwist has been a solution for many, and now, [...]
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