Oh hi, developers; Palm opens Mojo SDK
Developers, start your engines. It’s been a long time coming but Palm’s Mojo SDK — the Software Development Kit that facilitates application development on the webOS platform — is finally ready for prime time. Having previously been available only to a select group of partners, many have been openly disappointed with Palm for taking so long to allow open access to the SDK. From a consumer standpoint, that’s the reason Pre owners have all of 30 apps to choose from in the App Catalog right now. Skimpy selection is soon to be a thing of the past however, as we presume developers will hit this SDK faster than you can say, “please keep farting apps off my Pre.” The bad news: Palm still won’t be accepting developer submissions until the fall.
[Via The Official Palm Blog]
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Long time coming???? WTF Zach. The damn phone has been out for just barely 1 month and its released? How long did it take Apple again???
Also, wonder if this is their way of responding to Apple being a dick yesterday and blocking iTunes sync? Just seems like an interesting coincidence if not.
@Chad
iPhone was released two effing years ago.
If Palm came up with Pre two years ago, it could take as long as Ruby please to come up with the SDK.
But whatever, the Mojo is out now. Good luck to them and the participating developers. They need a lot of it.
anybody could use luck, not just palm.
good for palm, and great for us, the consumers, who only benefit from this.
@ArseneKarl
Yeah and it took them 1 year to release their SDK. And I was really only trying to make the point that Zach saying this was a long time coming was kinda stupid. It wasn’t that long, and I was just using Apple as a comparison for the timeline of phone release to SDK release.
And I do agree, the damn Mojo SDK should have been available at release date anyway, but 1 month isn’t so bad.
@Chad,
iTunes syncing will be blocked with the 8.2.1 update. So if you want to sync your Pre with your iTunes account don’t get the update.
Thirty apps. It would be funny if it weren’t so depressing.
@Chad,
IPhone sdk came out about the same time steve jobs got really sick and couldn’t lock his phone away from everyone
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i think its good that they are waiting til the fall. it will give the developers time to really develop their apps instead of feeling the pressure to quickly put out an app to stay ahead.
Gawsh the Pre is looking so good right now. P
Will there be a place where you can upload the apps you create and allow others to download them? How will it work now, palm will have to approve the app before it gets to the catalog or what?