We know Palm is just hit by two reasons to await a lawful fame. One – the GSM Palm Pre version hasn’t peeped out of the factory, yet (except the one in UK). Two – it’s got a very small application catalog for its mobile phone users.

For any gadget, tech specs, design, and all the ‘blah blah’ factors do a lot of publicity. But what does excessively more is just not these factors. Applications are the next big thing that attracts the users, and they bring the jail-bound features of the device to a very much explorable mightiness.

And everyone knows how Apple managed to pile up more than 100,000 applications for the iPhone – just another reason why some iPhone owners love their gizmo, and even Droid, which just broke out of the shell has somehow managed to count on more than 12,000 apps for its Android platform.

Do you see Palm even anywhere close to any of these? No. Because, Palm Web OS Development Tool, Palm Mojo SDK, is something quite new to application developers and does not seem to be interesting enough to draw the developer crowd.

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