Palm Opens Up to Developers
As opposed to requiring submission to the App Catalog, along with a lengthy approval process, as with the App Store, Palm will allow developers to do self-certification, certifying that their app meets the Palm User Interface Guidelines and Palm Application Content Criteria. When submitted as such, developers will receive a unique URL they can use in any way they wish. Users who click on the URL will get the app, over-the-air.
Why not just allow developers to use their own URL? Well, of course, there's an obvious reason. Consumers who download via that URL are monetized (for Palm). There's a 70/30 split, developer to Palm, for webOS apps.
If instead the developer wants to be in the App Catalog, Palm will charge them $50 for every application listed, and the company must approve the applications, naturally. Developers will also be able to bid for priority placement in the catalog using an auction system.
Palm also stated on Monday that they will waive the $99 developer account fee for developers creating open-source apps.
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It's smart of them to waive the developers fee for OS apps. This should get a lot of cool apps ported to their platform that might not have otherwise been ported. Does that phone in the pic remind anyone else of the handheld football games we all had before Gameboys decimated that business? |
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The 70/30 split seems a little harsh. What kind of cut does Apple take? |
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30% isn't so bad and it's the same fee that Apple imposes. Palm provides the platform and has opened it up to developers in a way that Apple never will. It may work out for them and only time will tell. I wish them luck going up against the 'Borg'. |
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I think that it is very smart of them to waive the fee for open source developers. It will help them out a lot to make headway into the amount of apps that the iPhone has already. |
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