Despite what Apple and Google have accomplished, Palm still controls a respectable share of the mobile market, and developers can now start to play with the operating system that’s meant to improve its fortunes. A developer beta of WebOS 2.0 was released yesterday. A page created to celebrate the move declared, “We’ve got lots of
There’s never been a better time to develop applications for Palm. The company, facing increasing competition from Google and Apple, has decided to discontinue the $50 fee developers previously had to pay every time they wanted to submit an app. This isn’t something that current Palm developers need to get huffy about. Rather than just
It’s pretty much common knowledge that Palm isn’t in great shape; financial analysts have set price targets of zero, Radio Shack is phasing out the Pre and Pixi smartphones, and Twitter just succeeded in stealing a Palm employee. Still, there’s good news for developers, as Palm’s waived a $99 fee. Greg Kumparak wrote yesterday, “Looking
Depending on their age, Palm is about to help a couple of developers either retire or at least move a little closer to 30+ years of doing nothing. The Palm Hot Apps Program has set out to reward the developers of two extremely popular apps with $100,000 each. Palm’s decided to look at what apps
Palm has announced its Hot Apps Program, which will reward developers of the most popular webOS applications with a total of $1 million. The developer of the free webOS applications that’s downloaded the most between February 1, 2010 and May 31 will receive $100,000. The developer of the paid-for webOS that generates the most revenue
The Palm webOS developer program is now open the company has announced. Any developer can now go to the Palm Developer Center, sign up, and start developing and distributing applications for webOS devices. “We’re thrilled to open the doors of a program that offers mobile developers unparalleled freedom and choice in how they distribute and
Palm has announced it will launch its European ecommerce developer program for webOS in March. Palm says its developer program extends the web orientation of the Palm webOS platform, providing developers with opportunities to leverage the web as a promotional channel for applications. The Palm developer program offers more freedom and choice of how to
Palm has introduced a new online development environment for creating Palm webOS applications called Project Ares. Palm says Ares is the first complete set of integrated mobile development tools hosted entirely in the browser. The goal is to make it easier and faster to create Palm webOS apps. The Palm Developer Network Blog provides more
