There are many other less-known music players on the market that Pre owners could use, if forced to do so, he said.

Ultimately, Palm's success lies in its ability to get more developer apps on its catalog, Burden said.

In fact, Palm today announced , including uLocate, FlightView and Citysearch, on its blog.

The company said 150,000 apps were downloaded from the beta version of the catalog on the first day the Pre was available.

By comparison, the iPhone and the iPod Touch have about 50,000 applications, from which there have been more than 1 billion downloads from Apple's App Store, which launched about a year ago. Today, Apple announced more applications that will work on its .