The New York Times has thoroughly proven its lack of understanding of the mobile market with its now famous misquoting of a Microsoft manager (uncovered by our sister site TamsPPC).
Nevertheless, the boys do get read – which means that their latest article could move some things at Palm’s. Here is a key quote:
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So far, Palm is off to a slow start. Palm’s App Catalog has just a few dozen apps, even as Apple boasts that iPhone users can download 50,000 apps that do everything from receiving baseball videocasts to unlocking a rental car.
The payment system for the Palm app store — important if the company wants to charge for certain programs — is still under construction. And most crucially, Palm has yet to open its software development kit, the main set of tools needed to write apps, to most of the thousands of developers who have expressed an interest in creating programs for the Pre.
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As of now, Palm has not responded – we will see how it all plays out…
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