My Ongoing Kafka-Esque Nightmare of Dealing With Palm and Its App Catalog Submission Process

September 30, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

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 (PALM) 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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Tagged with: app, innovation, Jamie Zawinski, Palm, Pre, software

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