Tag: palm

📅 March 23, 2010

Apple Crushing The Charts With Over 130,000 More Apps Than Android Marketplace

There was no doubt that Apple is crushing their competition in volume of apps available. Google’s Android is performing the best out of Apple’s competition.

Today, Silicon Alley Insider posted a new chart, which ranks all four major smartphone providers according to how many apps they have available on their marketplaces. There was no doubt that Apple is crushing their competition in volume of apps available. Google’s Android is performing the best out of Apple’s competition. They managed to get 6x more apps in their marketplace in the last nine months ( Apple multiplied their offer by 3.5x in the last 9 months ).

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📅 February 7, 2009

MS Office for iPhone

Dataviz, well-known for their Palm OS Software re promising to bring MS Office editing to the iPhone via their new app, DocumentsToGo. The app will be demoed at the Mobile World Congress which runs February 16-19 in Barcelona. The app will also run on Android.

Pricing information has not been released, but the app for Palm OS runs $89.99 in its fullest form, with two lighter version at $49.99 (doesn’t support Outlook on that version) and $29.99 (missing a ton of features, like Mac-created doc support). It’d be interesting to see if they stay at that price point or try to go lower – they really have no competition in this arena.

The closest competitor at the moment is MobileFiles Pro by Quickoffice, which only allows for editing of Excel files, and reading of other MS Office documents. That app sells for $9.99.