{"id":259597,"date":"2010-02-01T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=55724"},"modified":"2010-02-01T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:00:34","slug":"how-many-webos-apps-can-a-million-dollars-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259597","title":{"rendered":"How Many webOS Apps Can a Million Dollars Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s fair to say that that webOS catalog is lagging competitors in the quantity of software titles for the Pre and Pixi handsets. But quantity isn’t<\/strong> everything — quality applications that enable a mobile device are far more important to me.<\/p>\n

When I put my Palm Pre on notice<\/a>, this was one of the primary reasons for the action. Software that I wanted or needed to use on a daily basis simply didn’t exist on the webOS platform yet. Palm is increasingly making it easier for developers to jump on board, however.<\/p>\n

Following the Mojo SDK<\/a>, Palm introduced a web-based development environment in Ares<\/a> and also announced a Plug-In Development Kit<\/a> at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show. Now that more tools are available, Palm’s now offering a bit of a bounty<\/a> to entice development.<\/p>\n

The Palm Hot Apps Program<\/a> is based around a $1 million prize pool to reward developers. The top prize of $100,000 goes to the developer of a free webOS app that most downloaded between today and May 31, 2010. Likewise, the top paid app downloaded over the same time period nabs $100,000. The remaining prize pool is split between the next 200 top apps within categories, with prizes ranging between $1,000 and $10,000. Qualifying software titles must be built with either the Palm webOS SDK or the Ares environment, so those cool games built with the PDK shown off at CES won’t qualify.<\/p>\n