Decline
As of mid-2012, many applications including one from The New York Times have been precipitously pulled from the App Catalog. The actual number of remaining applications is currently unknown, but presumed to be lower than 10,000. When factoring out abandoned and/or non-functioning applications that remain in the App Catalog at present, the number is projected to be substantially lower still.
The number of currently maintained applications on the platform, defined as any application that has been updated within the last six months, remains a small fraction of the total as developer attrition accelerated in the latter half of 2011 after retail presence ceased, and through 2012 as WebOS marketshare fell to a combined (with PalmOS) 0.6% as of Q2.
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Famous quotes containing the word decline:
“Families suffered badly under industrialization, but they survived, and the lives of men, women, and children improved. Children, once marginal and exploited figures, have moved to a position of greater protection and respect,... The historic decline in the overall death rates for children is an astonishing social fact, notwithstanding the disgraceful infant mortality figures for the poor and minorities. Like the decline in death from childbirth for women, this is a stunning achievement.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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