Don’t ask me why, but I sometimes feel that the folks at Palm’s are slowly but surely starting to get that having developers behind you is precious.
In an email sent out to developers a few hours ago, Palm makes two crucial announcements. The full email is below, with emphasis added by yours truly:
Palm Eliminates App Submission Fees
These are exciting times for Palm and our developer community. The Hot
Apps promotion that we kicked off back in February is about to end
with over 400 developers receiving a share of a million dollars. We
recently launched the Summer Half Off promotion-a 50% discount for
nearly every app in our catalog that was funded by Palm; developers
still get their full earnings for each sale, but customers get half
off. And we’re just getting started.In July, we’re launching the new PDK Hot Apps promotion-another
million dollars to developers, this time focused on the C/C++ apps
that were excluded from the original Hot Apps promotion.And we have one more program change that will benefit all developers.
When we launched the developer program, we introduced a $50 per app
fee to submit apps into our catalog. Effective immediately, we’re
waiving this fee and refunding to all developers any $50 fees
collected in the past. If you’re one such developer, you will see a
credit in your PayPal account in the near future.Thank you for being part of the webOS community. We will continue to
evolve the Developer Program as together we build an incredible
application catalog for customers
At Tamoggemon HQ’s, we are delighted – now help us port Qt and we’re set to go!
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