Last Call For webOS Development Early Access
This one just landed in PalmInfocenter's inbox: Palm are putting out a final call for submissions to their App Catalog Early Access Program, in order to help with "final scalability testing" before the process opens up to the general public in December.
Palm are dangling a number of tasty-looking carrots for interested developers here, including:
- An assigned account manger to expedite feedback for any technical or program issues and manage your application through the review process
- We will waive all program and application fees. Only requirement is a $5 fee to verify your PayPal account, currently used for payments to developers.
- Maximize your application's visibility and be considered for inclusion in Palm's marketing activities.
Interested developers should hit up Palm's e-commerce beta application page, or send an email to catalog.ecommerce.beta@palm.com. The full email is reposted after the break.
Dear Developer,
We are excited to be heading towards the public launch of the Palm webOS Developer Program in December. Thank you for your interest in webOS and for downloading the Palm® Mojo™ SDK. In preparation for launch, we are now accepting a final batch of developers that would like to submit their applications via our Early Access Program and help us with final scalability testing. This is the last opportunity for developers to get in early, before we open up to the general public.
In consideration to developers who are helping during the test phase and participating in the Early Access Program, we are providing the following opportunities:
- An assigned account manger to expedite feedback for any technical or program issues and manage your application through the review process
- We will waive all program and application fees. Only requirement is a $5 fee to verify your PayPal account, currently used for payments to developers.
- Maximize your application's visibility and be considered for inclusion in Palm's marketing activities.
- Featured placements in the application catalog
- Direct marketing campaigns to device owners
- Palm's website, blogs, and newsletters
- Palm's launch activities for new device, country launch, etc.
- Opportunities to provide feedback to help shape the program
Developers interested in participating should reply to this e-mail with the following information:
- Your contact information (include name, e-mail, phone)
- Username for webOS developer portal
- For each webOS application you plan to submit, provide the following details:
- App name and description
- Business model for your app (free; paid; ad-supported)
- Palm webOS services with which your app integrates (e.g., location based services, calendar, contacts, notifications/alerts, etc.)
- ipk or representative screen shots of your app
Please review the following recommendations: Human Interface Guidelines, Application Design Checklist, Top Tips for Designing Great webOS Applications.
Upon your reply, you will be assigned an account manager if you are accepted into the program.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Palm Developer Marketing
Palm, Inc. 950 W. Maude Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085
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RE: last call
They DID have lots of 3rd party developers!
RE: last call
what ever happen to...?
RE: what ever happen to...?
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/normsoft-inc/id284105471
Gary
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RE: what ever happen to...?
jnuneznj: I've been keeping in touch with Normsoft, because I'd love to see them on webOS too. They're remaining tight-lipped. Last time I checked in in September, their response was:
"As a policy, we don't pre-announce or talk about products that we may be working on."
So you could read into that pretty much anything you like. Personally, I'd like to believe a webOS version of Pocket Tunes is coming, 'cause I love Pocket Tunes.
Most number of downloads for a paid WebOS application is...
See the Precentral article:
http://www.precentral.net/how-much-app-catalog-making-developers
or, better yet, do what Precentral did and install a patch ona Pre and get your own statistics.
The comments to the article from actual paid-application developers confirm the article's theme, if not its actual values (the comments say "the article overstates the ACTUAL number of original downloads since (free)updates were counted by it, too").
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"Come develop for Palm! Where it's dead simple to make an app that a very small percentage of the population will ever use! Remember, fewer users means less bug reports for you to deal with!"
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