Palm's App Catalog is swamped with submissions, bursting with flavor

Palm's App Catalog for the Pre properly launches tomorrow, and right now the question on most peoples' minds is just how many paid apps will be in there when the doors open. Based on the latest word from the development team, the answer could be quite a lot. Apps submitted late to the party are apparently being added to approval queues so long Palm is having a hard time keeping track of them all. Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach has indicated the approval group has "more applications than we could handle well," apologizing because they have "dropped some things on the floor." We're hoping they'll be picked up and dusted off quickly, because the five-second rule is not something to be messed with.

[Via PreCentral]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2009 11:12AM]

Having joined the Palm Pre party only a month ago. I must say that I'm rather impressed with the road map of WebOs. Although I can build a PC and also purge spam from a hard drive, I have never owned a phone that can be manipulated by user as much as the Pre can. Kudo's to the Precentral.net community and others no doubt that have gone above and beyond the call of duty and showed even novices how to get inside of their phones OS and make it do things you need or want it to do. I actually feel proud to be an unoffical beta tester and look forward to many more new advances in WebOs Tech:)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2009 11:28AM]

I couldn't agree with you more.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2009 12:05PM]

Get ready for.......that's right....THIRTY....give or take an app....WebOS apps tomorrow:

A Palm Poll Directly from its WebOS forums:

If the App Catalog was open to everyone, would you be ready?
Poll ended at Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:41 pm
Yes, my application is complete and waiting. 19% 19% [ 14 ]
Yes, but I am waiting until I can sell it. 21% 21% [ 15 ]
No, but ask me again in a month. 43% 43% [ 31 ]
No, my application isn't close but I'm working on it. 14% 14% [ 10 ]
No, I'm only interested in homebrew development. 1% 1% [ 1 ]
No, I'm developing for internal business use only. 1% 1% [ 1 ]

http://developer.palm.com/distribution/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=805&sid=35ae07ca8a384fde5a89712e8882f10e

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2009 12:06PM]

Yes, because Palm would have SO many problems with accepting 30 apps. (sense my sarcasm.)

And we all know that every member of any forum ALWAYS responds to polls. (again, sarcasm.)

Trolls are annoying. It's like their one goal and mission is to try to demean every device in which they do not own, because it makes them feel better about their inferior device.

[Dellibedaboss Posted Sep 24th 2009 3:40AM]

Just had to say POW!! webOS FTW! F*ck number of spps, Apple had a headstart, and I dont care if we sitting on 10k within a year, quality is > quantity period. Ppl act like the App Store does have tens of Thousands of FART apps, just just wasteful BS. GTFOH. webOS will evolve into a bigger and better beast. With Apple's lies, deceit and strict, totalitarian governance, I'm glad I'm with Palm and their OS, it much better anyway. Period.