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The Palm App Catalog is an online marketplace

Online marketplace

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for applications for Palm

Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older...

mobile devices running webOS but not Palm OS

Palm OS

Palm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...

.

The App Catalog is similar to Apple's App Store for iOS, Google

Google

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's Android Market

Android Market

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for Android, and Nokia

Nokia

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's Ovi Store for Nokia devices. At the time of the Palm Pre launch, the App Catalog featured 18 applications.

Milestones

Date	Applications available	Downloads, cumulative
6 June 2009	18	Launch
17 June 2009	30
27 June 2009	30	1 million
13 July 2009	30 official, 31 unofficial
16 July 2009	30 official	1.8 million
29 July 2009	32 official
25 August 2009	41 official
7 November 2009	356 official
28 December 2009	?	Beta tag removed
1 January 2010	1000 official
27 July 2010	3000 official
29 September 2010	4000 official

Milestones

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