PreCentral Homebrew Gallery passes 2 million downloads 12
With nearly 250 total apps - more than a dozen of which have graduated to Palm’s App Catalog - the PreCentral Homebrew App Gallery has logged more than two million downloads since August 19th. It was just September 4th that we hit one million downloads, so we’ve been running along at a clip of over 43,000 downloads a day over the past three weeks. In reality, we’re well over two million downloads by now, as the Homebrew Gallery actually opened for business on August 5th, but we didn’t manage to start keeping track until two weeks later when we saw just how many homebrew apps you were all sucking down through the pipes.
So to our developers and users, congratulations! Also, big thanks to Palm - we’re more than pleased to see homebrew developers graduating to the official App Catalog and honored to say that we were a part of it all.
So here’s to the next million downloads and the future of webOS apps! If you’re not sure how to install homebrew apps on your Pre, check out our step-by-step installation guide. And if you’re a developer who is interested in getting your app into the PreCentral Homebrew App Gallery, drop us a note and we’ll hook you up.
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what homebrew app is that one below Pre Package Tracker and the Contacts one? It looks like to batteries with a bolt between them? Is this that Power Profiler app people where asking for?
I don't recognize that app icon but that lightning bolt is the SHOUTcast symbol so I'm guessing it's some kind of streaming radio app.
That's the old icon for Net2Streams SHOUTcast Radio. It's a different one now (just a speaker, basically)
Amazing milestone reached in such a short time. Thank you PreCentral for greasing the wheels of innovation. Thank you developers and artists for the many hours you've no doubt spent creating such a great variety of applications for us all to enjoy.
For Real!! Well said.
Big respect guys and congratulations!!!
Awesome! You guys have done WONDERS for the Palm Pre users!
THANKS!
Any way to extrapolate the number of Pre's or individual accounts (do you have to login to PreCentral to download?) from that number? I know it would be a less stunning number, but would be interesting nonetheless...
Since this is total downloads of all versions of all apps, it is hard to get a count of Pre's from this. I'm sure PreCentral has an idea of the number of unique visitors they have, but that is usually closely guarded.
I know I would get 5k downloads per each new major version of Word Whirl. Some apps that are good at releasing new features and following the "release early and often" mantra, would get many downloads from the same individual as they keep pulling the latest every day or two. The Facebook app is a good example of this, with many updates done in a short time frame for quite a while.
I'm very glad I was finally able to get my pc to run that java app loader program, because there are some really cool applications out there.
What app is that sandwiched between the Shopping List app and the Brightness Unlinked app? It looks like a brick with a marble going through it.
Breakout (or whatever it's called on the Pre) the classic bounce marble off of bricks and make them disappear game.
WE NEED REVIEWS!!! There are waaaayyy too many apps to just download and try out...and that pesky app limit thing!
Remember Palmgear? Can we get some reviews to go on the pages with the star ratings? Please?