Palm’s Pre is the only handset on the market where the SDK can not be had with reasonable effort – instead, developers have to sign in to Palm’s and have to wait/beg until they are let in eventually.
Palm’s developer blog has just been updated – the key passage is the following:
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,…
According to insider sources (and a comment or two on the post which will probably be deleted quickly), the reason for this is that the initial developer team has not been able to recoup their development costs just yet.
Palm thus tries to create a “planned economy” for them, where they can sell their apps with minimal competition in order to keep them loyal to the platform (which has had a good beating after the Cobalt disaster).
Obviously, other developers won’t be too happy – but Palm probably can live off the developers it already has in the program…
Feedback, anyone?
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