Originally Posted by phreakish:
... people...
The app store is still in beta
Homebrew is encouraged, but not supported by Palm (meaning they wont software support it, they do however support the effort)
Limiting the # of apps allows Palm to effectively beta apps and the catalog. If there was an unlimited amount of space, you would no doubt have a large groups of users with every possible app, "just cuz"
Having a limit to the space available can be useful as they sort out how the phone will be used by most users, how apps interact with one another, how services and other tweaks work concurrently.
This is just a guess, but Id hazard that having a dedicated partition for app installs makes the multi-tasking easier/faster?
I currently have 72 installed packages, including about a dozen tweaks. I wouldnt say that is unreasonable. I can continue to install through preware, but cannot access anything in the catalog. There is little in the catalog of interest that isnt available in homebrew, so for now Im good. It is, however, annoying. I cant imagine Palm will let this go for all of eternity - once the app catalog is no longer beta, I would assume this 'restriction' will be lifted, or at least the partition size increased.
Its been 4 months folks.. the 6 month mark should be Palms time to shine IMO. Until then, lets give good feedback to them through proper channels. Or, we can just vent on the internet and accomplish nothing, I mean, it works for most people I guess.
So what is the puropse of a 8GB phone?