• By matt buchanan
    Sep 29, 2009 10:20 AM 9,169
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    Palm App Catalog Just As Crappy for Developers As the App Store

    I know Palm is fond of emulating Apple in certain respects, but why they're also copying the App Store's developer-hostility is beyond me. Jamie Zawinski's epic quest to get his free, open source applications into the App Catalog is maddening.

    • It's a corporate policy all apps use a version number of less than 1.0.0
    • Ten pages of legal documents to print out, sign and scan
    • If an app is in the App Catalog, it can't be distributed anywhere else—a problem, because Zawinski's apps are open source and free
    • Developers need a verified PayPal account to pay Palm $99 a year to distribute their apps
    • A whole mess of reviews and re-reviews
    • 27 emails and months later, the apps are still in limbo

    On the bright side, at least Palm actually replied to some of the emails. [jwz via Daring Fireball]


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