Palm NOT Re-hacking iTunes Sync, but ARE Alienating Developers?
According to PreCentral.net, the upcoming Palm webOS 1.2 update will NOT be re-hacking iTunes 9 sync. In other words, the cat and mouse game between Apple and Palm may soon be missing it’s mouse. We’d heard Palm was in this for the long haul, even though we thought it was more ego than good sense, and at the expense of their own customers, so if true — huge kudos to Palm (even if it took a little help from the USB-IF). And to Palm Pre users, our sibling site is:
suggesting people at least dip their toes into the non-iTunes-direct-sync waters. DoubleTwist, Salling Sync, Drag ‘n Drop, The Missing Sync: learn them, love them, switch to them.
In the opposite of kudos department, it looks like Palm may be cloning one of least popular aspects of Apple 2-Billion download iTunes App Store — developer alienation. According to JWZ, he’s gone through dozens of emails, jumped through countless hoops, bended but refused to break, and now has faced an Apple-esque 2 weeks of silence.
Could it be that introducing, setting up, and running an app store is difficult, and until a few years from now, when all the bugs have been worked out, Apple, Palm, and almost every company will have their share of stumbles, falls, and face-plants?
September 28th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Die quicker palm
September 28th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
So it ends here? So soon? I would expect a better chase.. But it’s for the better, this way Palm can have their own Store instead of being an Apple Klingon..
September 28th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Of course setting up an app store is difficult; that does not mean Apple, Palm, Google, or anybody else should be given a free pass. Apple is singled out for the most criticsm because a) they have by several orders of magnitude the most successful store, b) they have established a track record of capriciousness over more than a full year, and c) numerous issues have not been a result of/excusable as app store difficulties, but deliberate business decisions on Apple’s part, and therefore not likely to improve as the store matures. Palm may turn out as bad; they have not yet established a track record as has Apple. Developers/bloggers/media should keep shining a harsh, illuminating light on these practices regardless of the practioner.
September 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
@Dev
Well said.
September 29th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Palm suck big fat donkey ****….,
September 29th, 2009 at 1:06 am
@Dude
Well said.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Guys, the grammar….
Headline should read, “Palm…IS Alienating Developers?” (not “ARE”).
And “the cat and mouse game…may soon be missing its mouse.” (not “it’s”).
September 29th, 2009 at 4:57 am
To be honest, maybe that’s one developer that should be alienated.