If you judge a phone based on the apps available, and let’s face it, apps are really what make a smartphone a smartphone, then Windows Phone 7 and Palm kinda blow. Everyone knows that Apple is the current king, with over 300,000 apps available. But Android is closing that gap at breakneck speeds, surpassing the 200,000 mark earlier this week.
By contrast, Windows Phone 7 surpassed 5,000 apps this week. Granted, it’s only been a few months since Microsoft re-launched (for the third time) a series of phones on the world. But still, when you compare WP7 to Android and Apple, there really isn’t a whole lot of incentive to go out and buy a Windows phone unless you really really really like Microsoft.
As grim as the WP7 numbers are, they are moving at warp speed when compared to Palm. Their WebOS also just recently passed the 5,000 app mark. The difference is that it has taken then more than a year to hit that mark. Palm is rumored to be launching two new phones and a tablet next year, but if developers aren’t really paying attention to the operating system, it’s hard to forecast a sunny outlook for those devices.
The simple fact is that the hype has already died when it comes to WP7, and there never really was any to begin with for Palm.
Posted by David Yi, Social Media and SEO Assistant at Wireless Emporium