Palm’s App Catalog submission woes

Apple has engaged Phil Schiller to keep media outrage over rejected applications in check. At Palm’s, a more “Palmesque” method is chosen: the developer simply never hears again from the boys in Orange.

A developer called jwz has posted about his journey – it begins as follows:

A few days after the Palm Pre was released, I wrote a couple of programs for it: a restaurant Tip Calculator, and a port of Dali Clock. These were, as far as I’m aware, the 2nd and 3rd third-party applications for Palm WebOS that were ever available. I got on this boat early.

So why are they still not available in Palm’s App Catalog? That’s a very good question. This is my story about attempting to simply distribute this free software that I have written, and how Palm has so far completely prevented me from doing so.

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While the story does not contain bloopers like the infamous “I am the CEO”-claim from a customer care rep, definitely hit the link below if you feel like a good bit of Palmary madness:
http://jwz.livejournal.com/1096401.html

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5. The new PIMs on old Palms – part 2