Developers who have been shown Palm’s new WebOS say that it is great. What does that mean for Palm? It means more devs will look to Palm as an OS of choice over WinMo and, potentially, Android as the Pre hits stores and amazes us all with its amazingness. Writes NetworkWorld:
The potential power of webOS lies in three capabilities that Palm has brought together into a coherent whole. First, mobile applications are written entirely in JavaScript, HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, which are technologies that an army of Web developers has been using for years. Second, webOS was designed from the outset to run multiple applications at once and, these developers say, to minimize the well-known potential problems that arise when doing so. Third, the application model is designed in turn to fully exploit both these features, creating, these developers say, a simpler, far more intuitive user experience.
Like the iPhone before it, webOS depends on open web-based programming tricks to create apps. Hopefully, unlike the iPhone, developers won’t want more power than is available. Jailbreaking was the primary reason iPhone’s web-based progamming toolkit was abandoned but this looks considerably more interesting.
Please do tell us the rest of the story… Is Palm going to shoot themselves in the foot by jailing all the apps in an app store then charging $500 for a crippled dev kit? Is there an “unlocked” Pre out there for the rest of us not forced to live under the tyranny of U.S. corporate greed?
The Pre will die on the delivery table, and WebOS with it. Any chance it had for success went out the window when Palm and Sprint (undeniably the worst of all US carriers) entered an exclusive contract for all of 2009. Unless an unlocked GSM model is simultaneously rolled out I don’t see this device achieving much success. A pity too. I really REALLY wanted a Pre but I won’t be leaving AT&T to get it.
I am definitely looking forward to an UMTS unlocked Pre… I hope Palm will consider the potential of Pre’s entrance in the market and will not get stuck with just one or two carriers (which will also control applications and stuffs’ allowances, as we have seen many time before)!
sprint is the best network out there. they have the best plan deals and navigation along with tv. name a network where you get all of that along with unlimited texts and internet with 450 anytime and unlimited night and weekends starting at 7 for under 80$. there isnt! stop complaining about sprint and switch over already. i have been with them for over ten years and never thought about switching.
I hope the Pre is successful & app developers begin to prefer developing with HTML/JavaScript. This would help to accelerate the support for HTML5 & BONDI/PhoneGap on all smartphone OSes, since it would offer a similar development model to the Pre.
Kent you are on the worst carrier ATT…Sprint has by far the least expensive for themost inclusive service there is. ATT are crooks. Tell ya what ask anyone on the SERO plan how well they like Sprint. You are just spreading your ignorant bigoted narrowminded MEDIA spewed propaganda that your type like to spread as FACT rather then what it is.PURE BS. I bet I am far happier having paid less then $500 for 2 yearsof service including my smartphone then you are paying over $2600 for your toy!!! Also I have even better service then you do. Yeah play with your toy,I am going on Vacation for awhile out of the country with the difference in costs that I saved and Probably wil have enough to buy the Pre when i come back with what is left over of the difference.
What makes you cretins even come out of the wordwork to spew your shitt just because YOU do not like some Product? Why does it even matter to you if you care nothing about it?? I guess it just takes a special kind of jerk to do that day in and day out.
I feel sorry for you poor Americans having every phone exclusively locked to a carrier. I don’t know of any phone here in Aussie that I can’t just walk into a phone store and buy and put in any SIM. The iPhone is available on all but one of our four main mobile providers and I just brought a unlocked one off another carrier and plugged in my SIM for the unsupported network. Hopefully he Pre makes it down under as it looks impressive.
Colin