Palm is in a pretty bad rut: their partners demand them to keep the Pre market closed for as long as possible in order to maximize their sales – while the press and hundreds of other developers want to get their hands onto the SDK as fast as possible. This being Palm, one can be 100% sure that they would find a sneaky solution – and a sneaky solution they did find.
PreThinking reports the following:
1. Palm invites and doubles the number of early Mojo SDK developers on June 26th
2. One of the lucky developer decides to leak the link to the Mojo SDK on IRC.
3. @keithah picks it up and tweets it.
4. Now we all have the Mojo SDK, well, at least the Windows users.
I personally think that the tooth fairy will visit me tonight – seriously, why would any developer be so dumb as to risk getting caught in a canary trap?
Instead, I think that the process was endorsed by Palm to some extent: this allows them to be pissed off in public and keep their launch partners happy, while being happy themselves about having provided their developers a cheap and ready-made route to market. Launch partners are happy as they remain the only ones to be in the App Store: but other developers can start developing now in order to get their apps ready for the moment when they are finally let onto the store.
Feedback, anyone?
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