Palm details impending open app distribution model 8
by Dieter Bohn Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:04 am EDT
New Palm hires and Mozilla luminaries Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer spoke at Sprint's developer conference (the one where we saw that Pre running on AT&T) about their app distribution models that they're working on. There are two fronts: the open model wherein Palm will be helping developers distribute apps sans review and improvements to the App Catalog itself.
Add in some talk about their open source developer program and things are looking just as nice and open as we'd hoped when these new policies were first announced.
via TechPulse360, thanks Gabriel!
8 Comments
Twiddling our thumbs........ waiting..................... waiting........
For a hot second i thought this was dumb but this is where palm Will eventually succeed where apple and others will fail (even with apples huge head start)
To sum it up palm is saying look, you can create/experiment with all the lame apps you want outside of the store(which is great for noobs and and up in coming developers)but for the big boys who can create QUALITY APPS will get the money they deserve when submitted to the app store (becuase i pay for quality). this is truly a win win because we should in theory have a better quality to crap ratio as far as apps are concerned..
Quality apps with horrendous build quality... yup that sums it up...
webOS is not just about the Pre, its an OS with many phones to come my friend.
No, it doesnt sum it up, palmparcha.
You had no respect for the poster before you, misleading its opinion. I have read some post from you and they are just based on the same mantra. Stop this already or just tell Palm your problem with you Pre, if you got one
Well they need 2 make sure their flagship phone gets these high quality apps b4 its 2 late and there is no more palm
Yawn!!! Not holding my breath on palm delivering.
Relax dude. Palm is a very small company. They are doing better than their best according to me. Based on the number of people who work there as compared to Apple or Google, Palm has a hell of a staff and does one hell of a job.