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by Derek Kessler Tue, 06 Apr 2010 8:16 am EDT

App Catalog How do you like your porn stars? If you answered “fully clothed and on my phone,” have we got the apps for you! At least, that seems to be a bit of the theme from developer On The Go Girls, though with a name like that, what else are they going to do? Yesterday’s app drop brought seven new apps, four of adult film stars (and one of Hooters girls) wearing clothes of varying degrees of skimpy. Thankfully, that was offset by another enormous app drop (now I can’t help but read innuendo into everything I’m writing), hopefully designed to bring even more paid apps to our friends in countries that end with something other than “merica.” The list, in all it’s glory, is waiting for you after the jump.

New apps:

  • Aria Giovanni, $0.99, by On The Go Girls: Photos of actress and adult film star Aria Giovanni.
  • Bree Olson, $0.99, by On The Go Girls: Photos of adult film star Bree Olson.
  • Cassidey, $0.99, by On The Go Girls: Adult film star Cassidey, presented in photos.
  • Eva Angelina, $0.99, by On The Go Girls: Pictures of Eva Angelina, an adult film star, clothed.
  • German Car Plates, $0.99, by SpeedyMarks: Database of German license plate codes.
  • Hooters Calendar Girls 2010, $2.99, by On The Go Girls: The legendary girls of the Hooters Calendar, on your phone, saveable and wallpaperable.
  • MTV News, $1.99, by MTV Networks: Get the latest music, celebrity, movies, and gaming news right on your phone.

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35 Comments

Posted by dubmess on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 8:25 am EDT

How come Aria Giovanni is the only one who's also listed as an 'actress'? :)

Posted by Derek Kessler on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 8:31 am EDT

Because Wikipedia says she's done other stuff...

Posted by Vociferous on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 8:41 am EDT

Hey, Canadians can finally get paid apps and I suddenly realize I can now pay attention to the whole New in the App Catalogue and what do I get? Porn stars.

Don't get me wrong, they are hard workers who deserve to earn a living but...

Posted by PreDogs on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 9:04 am EDT

Be careful what you ask for, you might get it. Did you download the Brighthouse app of Daffy Duck Quotes for .98 Loonie, or a recipe for vegetarian meatballs, or look really hard to get the Atari 2600 games bundle, it's worth the effort and the money.

Posted by nsabournemouth on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 9:07 am EDT

Since paid apps i have not downloaded a single app free or paid. Just a load of rubbish. The games look good but i don't want games.

Posted by tehtorq on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 9:11 am EDT

What type of apps would you like to see?

Posted by trusolman on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:03 pm EDT

personally i'd like to see more business and productivity tools. i miss the windows mobile apps i had on my touch diamond. palms os is much more stable and the 3D games are awesome, but thus far i haven't been impressed with the business apps. i want my phone to help me with my work more.

Posted by blackmagic01 on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 2:41 pm EDT

i'd like to see real web properties and regular companies making apps like an ESPN or Fender guitars, photoshop. That caliber of app.

But here's the truth. Those apps aren't coming in any significant amount any time soon. People spoke all last year saying, "tommorow we'll get a flood apps." It never came. Or at least not good apps. I just don't see those apps ever coming.

Posted by Vociferous on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 9:37 am EDT

I'm actually rockin the My Home Keyboard, and Launchpoint right now. For 3d games I'm starting with Dungeon Hunter. I know I'll get to the Sims sooner or later.

When Agendus finally comes out for WebOS (and they've said they're working on it) I will officially ***** in my pants.

Posted by Soorma on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:13 am EDT

Are there filters in the App Catalog? I wouldn't want my dad to find out that some "Hooters" are in the app catalog...

Posted by Cantaffordit on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:38 am EDT

If it weren't for the "hide vendor" patch, I think I might go back to my Centro and be done with this mess. If Palm can't see the wisdom in controlling/filtering this sort of garbage, then maybe I should reconsider whether the closed and regulated world of iPhone might be better. Does anyone know if the iPhone store allows this garbage?

Seriously. Enough already.

Posted by PreDogs on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:44 am EDT

Of the 140,000 there are very few device transforming apps. Most qualify as data sets, revised GUI's for existing apps and games. Apple has tried to set a standard for racey apps of late, but chicks in swimwear hardly seems like a platform threat to me. But if Apple users want censoring, please give it to them.

Posted by nsabournemouth on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:09 am EDT

Out of 149,000 that Apple have there are ones much better than we are getting. The selection of apps with the build issues of the Pre are sure to help Apple and their sale surge. You can't even get Ebay to write an app and where is Skype. WebOS has girls in swimsuits, Go To Tool apps and other pretty useless stuff and i can't believe that some want people to pay fro some of this crap.

Posted by PreDogs on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:39 pm EDT

Dollar for dollar, the average WinMO and PalmOS apps were miles ahead of Apple. The Apple-ization of smart phones means that half-@ss efforts have a means of distribution and payment that didn't exist previously. The burden of those two challenges kept the bar high enough to keep out the crAPPs. I'd love to see a "Super App" designation that represents true resourcefulness and utility. I think I see one app every week or two that would qualify for this level of recognition.

Posted by blackmagic01 on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 2:48 pm EDT

gotta totally disagree. bottom line. i log onto itunes and the app catalog there are tons and tons of good apps free and paid. doesn't mean all. but it doesn't have to. WebOS catalog? Not even close in comparison.

Posted by meyerweb on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:15 am EDT

Wow. Just wow. The Crap catalog just gets less and less meaningful. Compare the new apps hitting for this app to the apps hitting for Android. It's a whole different world out there. Reall apps that actually do useful things for real people.

Porn stars. Wow!

Posted by nsabournemouth on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 1:01 pm EDT

It should be renamed 'The Crapalog'

Posted by Cantaffordit on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:29 am EDT

This scares me more than Palm's stock price. If they can't attract developers, and they keep allowing stuff that annoys users... what does that do for (not) attracting more phone sales? This is a vicious circle...

http://metrics.admob.com/

Palm, if you are reading this... you better start filtering the catalog (why the heck aren't apps in categories that we can filter off? The "hide vendor" patch can only do so much...

Palm, if you are reading this... you better start paying developers to port the more important apps to WebOS, and soon.

Palm, if you are reading this... refer to the link in this post and do something to change it.

Posted by kilroy on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:40 am EDT

Porn stars, Asian women photos, quotes from so-called famous people --- I never cease to be amazed by the incredible power of WebOS when I check the daily app catalog dump. Maybe I should stop getting my hopes up for something useful to hit the catalog. Palm must be very pleased to see what their years of blood, sweat, and tears has produced. I'm glad I'm not a Palm employee reviewing this stuff.

Posted by trusolman on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:17 pm EDT

i'd like to see the "hottest apps" listing be based on more than just the star rating. imo an app should only be considered "hot" if it has a high rating and has been downloaded a lot. there should either be a minimum number of downloads requirement, or a combined score from downloads and ratings. its really misleading and quite frankly annoying that so many of the "hottest" apps have been downloaded less than 10 times. developers get their app at the top of the list by having one or two people download it and rate it 5 stars... that's just lame.

Posted by nsabournemouth on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 1:08 pm EDT

I was in London with a friend who has an iPhone. After Planning our journey around on bus and tube we decided to see what films we could watch. Decided what film to see, booked the tickets and then looked at the bus and tube times to fit in after all on his phone. The arse then went and downloaded a few songs and all i could think was....my phone can multi task...thats about it. Its not enough to say that WebOS can multi task anymore, that is not enough to bring people to buy it. Apps and a decent build phone is the order of the day but i am sure that Palm are aware of that...................?

Posted by meyerweb on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 2:22 pm EDT

Yep, multi-tasking is only meaningful if there are useful apps to have running in the background. There are, unfortunately, few of those for WebOS.

I'll say it again: the insistance of Palm the Javascript is the development platform is killing them. None of the apps created for other platforms can be ported to the Pre, and the Pre's market penetration just isn't great enough to entice the major developers into writing new apps from scratch.

If the Pre supported C++, or even Java, it would be relatively easy for existing apps to be ported to WebOS, and we'd see a lot more "real" apps. Instead, we get a development environment that makes it easy for novices to write apps, and we end up with novice class applications.

Android, on the other hand, has multiple browsers, keyboard replacements, calendars, launcher / home screen apps, search apps, fandango, multiple location-based apps, PayPal Bump, Google Buzz, PhotoShop Mobile, Google Goggles, task managers, and the list goes on and on. (Yes, some of those above are in beta, but they don't exist at all for the Pre.)

Before launch, Palm said the ease of creating apps for the Pre meant there would soon be huge numbers of apps in the catalog. I wonder if this is what they had in mind?

Posted by blackmagic01 on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 2:51 pm EDT

yeah multitasking is barely even a selling point for me as i almost never have two apps open cause i don't have many apps.

i doubt this is what they had in mind. i think the phone doesn't sell and companies are not going to spend money paying people to develop something for such a tiny market of users.

Posted by cobrakon on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 4:24 pm EDT

@meyerweb

Time to put up or STHU!!

Android, on the other hand, has multiple browsers (WHY?), keyboard replacements (???), calendars (Built-in), launcher / home screen apps (In Homebrew), search apps (Got em), fandango (Been there from week 1), multiple location-based apps (Dozens in the catalog) ARE YOU FREAKIN SERIOUS WITH THESE COMMENTS??? *roll eyes*

Read Much??

The Plug-In Development Kit (PDK) is a new component of the webOS SDK that lets developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK, and even mix them seamlessly within a single application. The PDK brings new functionality to webOS, including immersive 3D graphics, and gives developers who have built games for other platforms an easy way to bring their titles to the webOS platform.

The webOS PDK takes its name from the way that C / C++ components integrate into webOS applications. The webOS platform is built on standard web technologies, with an application environment built on the WebKit browser engine. Components built with the PDK plug in to webOS apps using the same mechanism that supports desktop browser plug-ins.

http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1...

-CK
Palm Anti-FUD Unit

Posted by cobrakon on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 4:04 pm EDT

@nsabournemouth

Time to put up or STHU!!

After Planning our journey around on bus and tube...
>T-MAPS does this for NYC Bus and Subway

we decided to see what films we could watch. Decided what film to see, booked the tickets
>Fandango allows to browse theaters, trailers, and buy tickets

and then looked at the bus and tube times to fit in after all on his phone...
>See T-MAPS and others

The arse then went and downloaded a few songs...
>Amazon MP3 Store, more music than fits on the Pre

and all i could think was....I'm a twit that doesn't know ANYTHING about the products I buy. You are actually a perfect "fruit recruit". Their products are especially designed for people who don't know anything.

As for Crapp Apps, read all you want, ENTIRE websites have been dedicated to the crap apps in fruit-camp.

http://www.appmanifesto.com/insights/2010/01/app-store-tsunami-of-crap-a...

http://artoftheiphone.com/category/crap-apps/

-CK
Palm Anti-FUD Unit

Posted by nsabournemouth on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 5:09 pm EDT

You silly boy, i'm in the UK and i can not do any of what can be done on the iPhone and are you saying that the WebOS apps are better than what you will find on the iPhone?

Posted by blackmagic01 on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 6:13 pm EDT

to be fair there are plenty more sites dedicated to good apps in the fruitcamp too.

http://gizmodo.com/5352720/gizmodos-essential-iphone-apps-fall-2009
http://www.installerapps.com/2008/04/28/the-top-50-iphone-applications/
http://gizmodo.com/5503251/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps

Oh yeah. and one on one of the very sites you link too: http://artoftheiphone.com/best-of-iphone-apps/

this issue isn't which has more crap. it's which has more good apps. And sorry the answer isn't webos.

Posted by cobrakon on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 6:47 pm EDT

@blackmagic01

"Oh yeah. and one on one of the very sites you link too: http://artoftheiphone.com/best-of-iphone-apps/"

Thanks for helping prove my point. Of their 'toplist' they have 33 apps listed...only SIX are missing from WebOS. (Savyshopper, ESPN, Photoediting apps, and Skype)

-CK
Palm Anti-FUD Unit

Posted by nsabournemouth on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 7:59 pm EDT

To say that the WebOS app store is anywhere near as good as Apples is silly. Its not and i doubt it ever will be with devs staying clear. Games will not save Palm, decent phone and an app store that gives people what they want will.

Devs won't risk the money in getting the rights to information and / or paying someone to write and then the time and effort creating the app so it is left to the end user to create apps that aren't that well put together in some cases and are just re packaged internet searches. W edont mean to offend you by saying that the app cat is a pile of junk.

Posted by cobrakon on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:40 pm EDT

@nsabournemouth

"To say that the WebOS app store is anywhere near as good as Apples is silly. Its not and i doubt it ever will be with devs staying clear. Games will not save Palm, decent phone and an app store that gives people what they want will."

No one is saying the App Catalog is as good as the App Store, but screaming "WebOS has no apps!" is FUD plain and simple. Especially when you consider that WebOS has an app for 85%~90% of the Top apps on any list so far. 150K to 2K and 85% equivalency is pretty damn good.

Plus you have to be daft to deny that *maybe* 15% of that 150K number is actually worth anything. Look at the opening line from REPUTABLE sites on jebusPhone apps.

TIME Magazine
Numerous apps are in the store, many are useless and others are buggy, but there are a few that make the whole app thing worthwhile. After wading through light sabers, flashlights and a staple simulator, here are some programs that are actually worth downloading. More

Posted by blackmagic01 on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 9:40 pm EDT

if i cared to waste the time i could make a list of well over a hundred apps not on WebOS. But your idea was to say well there are websites about all the crappy apps in the iphone catalog. my point is there are a lot more about good apps. YOu don't have many touting all the great webos apps. and even so. There are not nearly as many good apps on webos as on iphone. only a crazy person would dispute that fact. But hey good luck.

to compare the two catalogs is a waste cause palm's catalog is full of shit and not nearly as big. you keep drinking the palm koolaid. But coming up on a year Palms already soured on me and these apps were never good enough.

Posted by srswarley on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 4:10 pm EDT

I just ordered my Pre Plus w/ Verizon and should be coming in tomorrow! I haven't owned a palm since the Treo 650, so needless to say I'm excited. And as a multi-tool user, I naturally started perusing the apps that are available. I found it a little unnerving that such an awesome OS would support some apps like that. (Is Girls Gone Wild the next app?)

I'm a research Geoscientist, and would like to see more useful apps. Not that I would use them for my research, just the benefit of knowing there are more apps out there that would be more conducive to someone like me.

An example would be the Geologic Time Scale app for the iPhone (I know I know.. the if the iPhone can do it, why not Palm) Or maybe an inclinometer app.

But this kind of app in the article above... not useful. Try again.

Posted by cobrakon on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 4:58 pm EDT

@bsburnham


"An example would be...Or maybe an inclinometer app."
(Yeah another spreading FUD out of ignorance to the facts)

Since an "inclinometer" is aka a "level gauge", there is an excellent one in the catalog called Teal Level. Handles multiple vector angle readings with recalibration.

http://www.precentral.net/app-gallery/app-catalog/teallevel-flight-rv-an...

-CK
Palm Anti-FUD Unit

Posted by srswarley on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 5:56 pm EDT

@ cobrakon

I hadn't run across that app yet, could be useful, thanks for the heads up.

Posted by todayslies on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 2:19 pm EDT

I can't believe anyone would actually pay money to look at these women clothed on their Pre. Especially when a very quick search on their Pre would yield many nude photos of the same women for free. Not that I know anything about that.