October 6, 2009 8:50 AM PDT
Palm developer program set for December lift-off
Palm said Tuesday its WebOS developer program will open in December with an "unparalleled level of transparency" in a not-so-subtle dig at Apple.
The company, which is playing catch-up to Apple with its applications store, kicked off its App Catalog beta program on Tuesday.
Among the key details of Palm's developer program:
• A 70/30 revenue split. (Palm gets 30 percent.)
• A $99 annual fee. That fee is waived if you submit an open-source WebOS app.
• The company will review every application and developers will pay a fee of $50 for each app.
Read more of Palm developer program set for December lift-off at ZDNet.
Larry Dignan is editor in chief of ZDNet and editorial director of CNET's TechRepublic. He has covered the technology and financial-services industries since 1995. 
I want a Pre, but I will never go back to being a Sprint customer.
$50 to submit apps?? This seems slightly unreasonable..
Anyway, I'm expecting good things. I've met some very talented pre developers and they have said developing for the pre has been much easier than for the iphone. They seem to like the development platform a whole lot more and they were able to ramp up on it pretty quickly with some very robust apps.
Developers are free to publish their Pre apps on their own website, for example, or at 3rd party app stores, and in the future possibly even through digital distribution sites like Amazon, etc.
The $50 fee is only if they want to publish a commercial app on the App Catalog. It's a smart idea, basically to weed-out the 50,000 fart apps Apple has polluting on their App Store. It helps keep the App Catalog clean and even at $0.99 a download any worthwhile app will make back that $50 in no time.
- by AppleSuxLeo October 6, 2009 11:02 AM PDT
- Third parties are also being allowed to sell apps Very cool.
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