Exactly one month to the day after having (accidentally) locked us out of the App Catalog, Palm has an early Christmas present for importers of the unlocked German Pre: we’re once again able to access it. The fix? As we suspected, it was an oversight on Palm’s part in implementing the latest version of the Catalog, which didn’t know how to recognize phones that had been activated on unapproved carriers. The glitch appears to have been put to bed.
Following up on the other side of webOS geo-restrictions – namely, the way the number of apps available to non-U.S. users was summarily cut in half recently – we got a brief quote from Developer Community Manager Chuq von Rospach on the subject:
We’re continuing to work to bring paid apps to all geographies and are working with the developers to make sure their apps get distributed to all regions where it’s appropriate.
It’s just a question of patience, wethinks…
