Ben and Dion interviewed on IT Discussions
Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, the Mozilla luminaries Palm brought on board in September to co-direct developer relations, sat down recently for an interview with IT Conversations' Phil Windley. Among the topics discussed are their move to Palm from Mozilla, their aspirations on shaping the future of the Web, and where they see the development platform going in general.
If you’re not familiar with who these two are, you should be: they're poised to push the boundaries of what's possible with the Web as a platform for application distribution and development (see: Ares) through their positions as Palm.
The two strongly believe that the Web is going to play a crucial part in the development of the webOS ecosystem, and Dion expands on some of the concepts first revealed when they announced the developer program last month. In addition to a robust on device app catalog, there will be another option that allows developers to simply submit an app and get a URL that points to their applications that’s hosted by Palm. The two envision that end users will create their own method of distributing apps that utilize the raw feeds provided by Palm (a concept which should already be familiar to many of you) to build their own, more specific application catalogs.
Head over to IT Conversations and listen to the full interview where these and several other topics, including Apple’s failed flirtation with the Web as distribution platform in the early days of the iPhone, are touched on. It’s required listening for anyone who's interested in where the future of mobile computing is headed.
