People who have followed TamsPalm since the very beginning know that I once switched away from PalmGear due to their algorithm tax and – more important – their tendency to disapprove newly uploaded applications for whatever reason, thereby voiding marketing campaigns.
However, having multiple distributors is a great revenue booster: after a lot of thinking, I decided to give the zombified leftovers of PalmGear (aka PocketGear) another chance.
First of all: Palm OS software can not be managed from the PocketGear frontend. Instead, developers must use a special URL on the otherwise deserted PalmGear web site. The front end slowed FireFox 3 down to a crawl due to loads of JavaScript – but I eventually managed to get the app up (and eventually, approved):
But the games aren’t over yet – as the program simply doesn’t appear on PocketGear’s web site. I tried to search for it to no avail; and the “developer page” doesn’t list the application either.
The problem lays somewhere else, however. As I use multiple distributors, I made the stupid mistake to upload the program to other ESD frontends who now consider it updated. I should thus send out the press release now (and start the ads) – but I can’t, because one of the distributors is still asleep. It doesn’t take more than a few brain cells to figure out how unhealthy this is for my marketing campaign…
In the end, the lesson here is simple: when it comes to uploading apps to PocketGear, wait until they appear on the PocketGear web site. The status information on their web site is worthless…
P.S. I wonder why other distributors (MobiHand, cough) don’t have these stupid delays…
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