We covered HP’s – IMHO bad – idea to motivate employees to create webOS apps in the past.
HP’s Phil McKinney now posted the following to his Twitter feed:
As Tamoggemon also has a (small) webOS department, I am naturally not happy about a new competitor – let’s see what apps the folks created and how they will be priced.
P.S. Think about it like this: these boys get their fixed wage from HP. They can thus easily outprice a developer who has no second income stream…
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Cry me a river! It is called competition, survival of the fittest!
I just want 500 more apps! Hopefully some of them will be useful.
Tim
The attitude of some developers (and I am one by trade) amazes me. Make something that is unique and worth buying, and support customers with updates for bug fixes and feaures, and your user base will grow. Attack the competition instead of innovating, then you deserve the lack of sales.
Not suggesting Tamoggemon falls into this category; I’m in a country where I cannot yet buy apps from the App Catalog.
If you make apps for WebOS, than this is GREAT news for you! What WebOS needs is a larger userbase. Consumers won’t buy Palm phones if there isn’t a boatload of apps. If there are more apps, then there wil be more users, and more users = more money available for app developers.
Hi Folks,
the issue is that I am very unmotivated to compete against the OS vendor…
From an user’s point of view, it of course makes sense for now. The big ouch will only come when developers can no longer sustain their companies due to deteriorating sale prices…
All the best
Tam Hanna