Well, it’s good news for Palm – they’re going crazy with new app submissions and have had to hire new staff to clear the backlog of submissions!

We got more applications than we could handle well, which is a good problem to have. Unfortunately, it means we dropped some things on the floor, and that’s bad, but with the impending “stuff” that’s coming, this is all going to get a lot easier for everyone and a lot more transparent.

If you didn’t get a response in a timely manner, let me apologize to you. We should have done a better job on this, and I apologize for this. I’m working with the people I work with on this to try to make sure we do a better job of this moving forward. Good news is we’ve hired some people — one’s started, one starts next week, and the third starts the week after that, and that’ll give us some great people and some new resources to make sure this gets fixed and works properly.

Now that’s the kind of problem any company would like to have these days! Although it might be frustrating for the people who have submitted apps, it’s great news for Palm that there is such a huge amount of interest!

In other Palm news, they have just issued a press release announcing an increase in the number of shares available for public offering of common stock to 20,000,000 shares (NSDQ: PALM).