Palm’s made a few half-baked attempts at wooing developers in the past, like that time in October when it waived the fees and review process for open-source apps (but not App Catalog entries) or when it provided discounted handsets that happened to carry a large carrier-specific ball and chain. This week, Palm’s decided to be a bit more generous — it’s eliminating the $50 App Catalog submission fee entirely and putting every last cent back where it came from. With only 2,684 apps in the store, that’s just $134,200 in total, but symbolically it’s a very welcome gesture, no?
Now this is intriguing. PocketGear has just acquired its former competitor Handango in the cross-platform app store space, and can now claim a library of software that places it right alongside Apple’s App Store in terms of the pure number of applications on offer.
Whoa, whoever said Palm didn’t have any decent games will definitely be eating their hat for dinner tonight. Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles has just hit the Palm Pre app store, last seen on…
Palm Pre Homebrew Apps Get Over Two Million Downloads My Pre The Palm Pre launched with only a dozen apps in the App Catalog, since than, we have 97 apps in there. But for those that want to spice it up a little, …
It looks as if Verizon might not be selling Palm’s Pre, the bells-and-whistles handset that has been a Sprint exclusive since June. One reason for the decision, the Web news outlet The Street reported, is that Pre sales have not reached blockbuster status. In addition, there have been conflicts with Palm’s app store and Verizon’s VCast service.
DailyTech mocoNews – Paid Apps Coming To Palm Pre This Fall Washington Post Palm (NSDQ: PALM ) has been slow to roll-out more applications in the Pre's App Catalog, and now it's announcing a very relaxed schedule for when developers … Palm Pre readies app store e-commerce beta test NetworkWorld.com Palm accepting applications for paid apps on the Pre Mobile Burn September launch for Palm Pre app store PC Pro InformationWeek