Our last few interview partners were rather positive – now, the folks from Mobile-Stream’s have stepped into the ring. Their representative(who remained unnamed) told as a few very interesting things about migration trends and sales numbers…read on to find out who migrates and how application sales for Centro have turned out for them!
Please tell us more about you and your company.
Mobile Stream is a small independent company that develops games and utilities for Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian. Among our well-known programs are Card Reader, USB Modem and Landscape/Portrait utilities. Landscape utility is the only application that adds a landscape mode to Sony CLIE TH/NX/NZ and Garmin iQue 3600 devices. Although Sony abandoned CLIE series long ago we still have Landscape sales now.
Have you already handled a Centro yourself? If yes, how do you feel about it. If not, why not!
No, we do not have a Centro. We do have a number of Palm devices, it is enough for us to do testing(pictured below):
Some minor issues with USB Modem and GSM Centro have been fixed with the help of remote beta-testers. Card Reader utility supports Palm Centro. All our games (Meteor, Jackpot Casino and Mobile Jigsaw) are fully compatible with Centro.
Do you feel like the Centro could become a mayor source of income for developers given the target demographics?
If we talk about total sales, Centro software sales have so far brought the lowest revenue to us (as compared with Treo 650, Treo 680, Treo 700p, Treo 755p and palm TX). However, software sales from Centro owners have a very good growth rate and if the current trend continues for at least several months Centro applications sales will catch up with those from TX or Treo 650.
Have you seen users migrating to the Centro from other devices? If yes, which were the most affected? Would you migrate yourself?
Yes, many people migrate. According to our records, people migrate to Centro from almost all Palm devices, mostly from Treo 680 and Treo 755p.
As for ourselves, we do not plan to migrate.
Do you think that the Centro’s camera is good enough?
As we do not have a Centro, we cannot answer this question.
Which device do you currently use yourself(and why)?
For our personal use we have Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. However we use several Palm devices for testing purposes.
Has Palm done a good job helping developers to get their apps Centro-ready before release?
We have not heard of such an action. Anyway, there was no special need for us to get such help.
Have you experienced technical issues porting your apps to the Centro? If yes, of what kind have they been?
The only glitch was with GSM Centro, its device ID had been changed from its CDMA counterpart and we had to release a patch for our USB Modem software.
Feel like giving us a sneek peak at your upcoming apps which are optimized for Centro?
We do not plan special optimizations. As for Palm in general, we plan to support and update our existing software, currently we are not going to release any new Palm applications.
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