New in the App Catalog for 25 February 2010 17
by Derek Kessler
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 8:19 am EST
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 8:19 am EST 
I know, you all want webOS 1.4, and you want it now. I can’t give it to you (but if I could, rest assured I would). But what I can give you are new apps. Yeah, that’s almost as good as video recording, flash support, and everything else rolled into 1.4, right? How dare you doubt me. Apps are good! I wouldn’t do this every day if I thought otherwise. And to prove it, I’m going to point you after the break where you can see for yourself what’s new in the land of webOS apps.
New apps:
- BestPrice, Free, by jaf0 Software: Plug in the price and quantity and figure out whether that multi-pack is really worth it.
- CompTIA A+ 220-701/702 Bundle, $6.99, by UpWard Mobility: Study up for your CompTIA certification.
- Independent Film, Free, by BIGSTAR.tv: Stream independent films for free right to your phone.
- Jokes Pro, $1.99, by Sergiu Dogaru: Thousands of jokes on your phone, with more added every week.
- Michel Angelo Quotes, $1.99, by Brighthouse Labs: Sure, his name is really one word...
- Mignon McLaughlin Quotes, $1.99, by Brighthouse Labs: Quotes from the mid-20th century American journalist and author.
- Personal Protection, $2.99, by Greater Life Church: Panic sound generator with auto 911 and SMS messaging.
- podbay, Free, by uselicious: Access your EVE account and check up on your character’s skills, clones, and other stats.
- Pribbage, Free, by Chickenbee: Play cribbage against the computer.
- Sense and Sensibility, $0.99, by Appible: Read Jane Austen’s classic 1811 novel.
- The Red Badge of Courage, $0.99, by Appible: Stephen Crane’s highly influential Civil War saga.
Updated apps:
- bit.ly, Free
- Castle of Magic, $4.99
- Compound Interest Calculator, $0.99
- Dice Tower for webOS, $1.00
- Expensify - Expense Reports, Free
- Facebook Chat, $1.99
- Handy Construction Calculators, $3.99
- Jotter, Free
- MapTool, Free
- MyBible, Free
- Outline Tracker Free, Free
- Outline Tracker, $23.50
- Pandora Radio, Free
- pReader, Free
- RadioTime, Free
- Rockus Sound Machine, $1.99
- Shopping List, $1.99
- Spiel der WEisen, $5.99
- Ten Trends, $0.99
- The Holy Bible, Free
- TouchConnect, Free
- Weatherman 2.0, $1.49: 50% off, completely rewritten to support weather around the world.
- World Time Pro, $2.99
17 Comments
Woot!!! More Brighthouse Labs Apps! (Sarcasm strongly intended)
(I wish there was a sarcasm font then this post would work better)
How does Brighthouse make money with this strategy?
First! Yeah finally I get the gold medal in the pre central olympics! Lol..........
Edit: I should have just posted the above lines and that's it, I would have been gold, but instead I wanted to add more stuff and by the time I finished someone beat me to it, oh well i'll have to settle for a silver medal!
Anyway, I hope now that Palm is gonna help Verizon try to push more phones, they start selling more and make developers want to make more apps, I hope soon we can see apps increasing at least 30 or more per day like android, every developer is jumping on that wagon since android it's becoming more and more popular
How many more quote programs do we need? How about Dieter Bohn or Derek Kessler quotes?? Now there's an app!!
don't encourage them.
People must be buying brighthouse apps if they keep adding more. I don't buy apps that I can google for free
very few people actually buy is apps. I just checked a couple and the most downloaded app had just five downloads and a few had zeros. I think he's content not selling much because his apps don't really require talent, and he can use the same template over and over again..
All the same, it costs $50 to submit an app. He'll have to sell over 35 of each $2 app just to break even, and doesn't seem to be doing that. So all I can hope is that the spammtastic waster goes broke soon, has his computer taken away by his mother for running up bills on her credit card, and we'll never hear from him again!
Nope, Brighthouse got the early developer deal: no $50 app charge.
Developers in the early beta program were not charged $50 per app prior to the developer program going out of beta. However now that it's out of beta, we do get charged $50 per app.
So either they are paying $50 per app (and losing money doing it), or they worked out some kind of deal with Palm so they can boost their app count numbers.
Actually what I bet happened was they made their one quote program and their one sports program. Released a few, were notified that Palm was going to apply the fee to them, then they released 5,000,000 quote/sports team apps for review and Palm is slowly going thru them and okaying them.
That's my guess. There's no way it makes sense for Brighthouse to pay $50 for those apps because I can't see more than a handful of idiots downloading the brighthouse apps.
All that's waived at the moment is the $99/year fee. You pay $50 per application submitted.
ooohohoho man -.- i saw "facebook" in updates and i was ready to scream like a little baby until i saw -chat - 1.99$...
Btw, BRIGHTHOUSE LABS.... Isn't it MichaelAngelo? -.-
Edit: LMAO. I thought it was another Michaelangelo... Yeah it's Michel xD sorry...
Oh thank goodness! I was just trying to remember a quote from Mignon McLaughlin the other day! Now I will always have his quotes in my hand! Oh Joy! oh Rapture!
ZOMG you too? Get out!
i dont care about the new apps right now, i just want my web OS 1.4