Apple forever changed the way we use our mobile phones with the introduction of the App Store on the iPhone. Others soon followed suite after them. Google introduced the Android Market for their Google OS and Palm rolled out the App Catalog for the webOS platform.
Unfortunately though, not everyone can proudly say their opening an app store has paid dividends for them. Palm, for instance, had a very promising start, but eventually fell out of contention. While both Apple and Google have more than 200,000 apps available in their respective app stores, Palm only has a paltry 2,684 apps in the App Catalog. The faltering popularity of their webOS-based mobile phones (Palm Pre, Palm Pixi) may have something to do with it, but we’re pretty sure the $50 app submission fee has turned off some app developers as well.
So, in order to entice more developers to hop on-board the webOS bandwagon, they’re now waiving the $50 fee and, being the generous folks that they are, are also refunding the said amount to those who have already paid for it in the past. This move by Palm will definitely turn some frowns upside down though I personally doubt this will have any immediate effect in significantly increasing the number webOS apps being offered in the App Catalog. You can read the entire announcement here.
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