iPhone and Nexus – just a beginning. It is a given that mobile computing is the next big thing. When Apple opened its iPhone SDK, which gave developers the tools to make native mobile apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, no one imagined how revolutionary it will prove in the long run. iPhone Apps make it the ‘it’ phone of this generation. And the explosion of mobile app users just confirms that the cell phone will become the ultimate solution to personal computing within next few years. Google Android is trying to take it one step further by being open source.
So, it does not surprise that Palm follows suit in a battle of survival. Palm opened up its webOS developer program to the public on Thursday, saying it expects to see a flood of new applications developed for the mobile OS. Read the Slashdot story here.
As an incentive to developers interested in building their own directories, Palm is offering US$1 million to the developer with the most downloads of free and paid applications between February and May, Mitic said.
Palm also announced a plug-in development kit for WebOS that allows developers to extend the OS’s capabilities using code written in C and C++. Over time, these plug-ins will be incorporated into the software development kit, she said.
Mobile Mania (src: wirefresh)