Newly appointed Palm (NSDQ: PALM) CEO Jon Rubinstein symbolically took over the company’s reigns today by leading the Palm’s fourth-quarter conference call, and was clear in delivering this message: Palm remains on track — from meeting Pre supply to working with application developers. One topic he would not touch, however, was the issue of how many Pres the company had sold to date. Release. Earnings call (1:30 PST).
Rubinstein said eager Pre owners downloaded 150,000 applications over the first weekend, but in the nearly three weeks since then, the number has soared to more than 1 million. “This last stat is impressive, given that it’s still in beta.” As for working with developers, “We
That's a very impressive number. What is their business model on this? There has been a lot of talks around this lately, i.e.e stuff like this http://vasreport.com/site/mobile-apps-wont-stay-free-chris-wade-of-shozu/22/ – would be interesting to hear your take on this..