Palm square in WebOS strategy needs more
Just hours after the Palm has to leave its new operating system runs on Palm Pre details to continue to grow around the unit and its software. One of the important factors that need to be addressed is the application development and distribution. Palm has confirmed plans for the kind of central management of the store applications to download. But still do not have enough information about how this will work.
Palm in Stephane Maes said that Palm would not try to approve every application developed for WebOS, as it does for Apple iPhone applications.
“Of course, we want thousands of flowers bloom,” he said. “Every now and then There are a few dandelions, we want to filter out.”
Unable to misquote clichéd Mao Zedong pass (he actually chased many of those who dared to let their ideas anthesis), let’s turn to ask more important questions that remained unanswered this morning.
If Palm retains certain rights to refuse the applications, how will this choice be made? Apple has encountered its share of criticism for the nebulous policy to approve or reject applications for App Store, which disappointed many developers, even as they flocked to the App Store.
Even if Palm takes the approach to the types of non-interference applications created for the Palm Store WebOS will be the exclusive place for those applications, and Palm will allow competition between the types of online shops that sell running Palm OS applications and their own?
As WebOS SDK work? Mojo SDK is available as a private prerelease, according to a message Posted by Palm on its home page, the developer and the public download later this year.
Palm, the pioneer of mobile computing, are well versed in the management of development organizations, but times have changed with the Palm OS PDA world was the dominant operating system. It was unclear whether the company will be able to return to developers who have moved to the iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Android.
These questions are crucial for consideration by the court as a WebOS and will play a pre-Palm in the current market, not least in that the developer support is a key factor in making a smartphone more attractive product. At least one developer Palm Palm contact us calling to resolve these issues sooner rather than later.
Bill MacAdam, director of product development of the automotive industry developer and longtime GigglePop Palm OS developer, wants very much to know that Palm has in mind concerning the application of distribution.
“We are very much needed to maintain the existing distribution model where the software installation can take place without going through the store,” he wrote by e-mail. “Although the shop is a convenient place for consumers to buy an application, it does not work well for Business / Enterprise applications. Furthermore, it is very important that we have a very specific road map to help us in transition.”
Palm is a bit late for Smartphone 2.0 a game, but it came down to a good start with a Palm Before the introduction. Obviously, it will take much more than whistling in the demo to get Palm back to the track. As the company handles the application development looming in its success or failure
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