Palm just posted an update on their developer blog telling developers—all of whom are anxious to make apps for the Pre and start making money—that the SDK won’t be out until late summer. On the one hand, it’s good news that they’re going to get an SDK available in three or four months from launch.
With the Pre now in customers’ hands and reports of webOS hacks in the news, we know that you are more anxious than ever to get access to the SDK and start developing for webOS. We’ve been working very hard on the SDK and are eager to open access on a wider scale, but the software and the developer services to support it just aren’t ready yet. Our goal is to make the SDK available to everyone by the end of this summer, and to get there in stages: Beginning immediately, we’ll accelerate the growth of the early access program, expanding as quickly as resources allow