Going to WWDC? Come by and say hi!

18 BY Chuq Von Rospach

For anyone who will be near Moscone in the evening, Palm will be hosting a casual reception at Thirsty Bear (http://thirstybear.com/) in San Francisco on June 11th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Stop by, meet Chuq and other members of the webOS development and developer relations team.

Comments (18)

  1. Jakub says:

    Hi,

    Sure WWDC is the place to be right now, to get some more inspiration and attract more developers to webOS. Nevertheless, shouldn’t you guys be preparing opening of webOS SDK to wider community? Or some info packs to be presented on preDevCamps to developers already in palm dev community?

    Just teasing, I’m sure you’re already doing this things too. Enjoy the WWDC!

  6. Prakash says:

    Hi,
    It is time to open up your SDK and let the developers start coding. Will your SDK be secret forever?

  7. Daniel says:

    You know it’s easier to attract developers when you have an SDK published… It’s harder to pull developers away from a platform with at least a semi-published SDK.

  8. Steven Troughton-Smith says:

    You know, I may actually come out and meet you guys; I just swiped me a Pre there yesterday, likely the first one in Ireland :-)

  10. steamedJobs says:

    For goodness sake, where is the SDK? How many times can a Palm representative publicly state that the SDK will be available soon, that Palm is ready to release the SDK, yadda yadda yadda… before someone at Palm starts thinking “hmm, maybe we ought to be, I dunno… accurate, perhaps?” How many emails to ‘apply’ to the ‘preview’ will get ignored until the SDK is actually released, thus making the whole ‘preview’ thing one more ‘gee, just kidding’ non-event? More to the point, how much whining / begging / complaining does a developer have to do in order to acquire the opportunity to help haul Palm’s rear end out of the fire by writing some actual software to compliment the vast number of apps _currently_ available (all 20 or so of them)?

    This is cool, and I wish I could be there for it, if only because it would allow me to twist an arm or two to get the SDK. But seriously, meetings at brew pubs? Come on! You can seat yourselves right next to the guys arguing about which Kirk is better, original or new.

    I think I speak for a lot of developers when I say “WebOS: really cool! Well done!” On the other hand, communication and handling of basically everything having to do with the SDK and developing for WebOS: not so well done. Possessed of a high degree of chain-jerking. Dubious. Highly untrustworthy. Fully annoying.

    Is there _anyone_ at Palm that can provide an actual, reliable estimate of when the SDK will actually grace our monitors and ethernet ports, or is it all some kind of cruel joke?

    Yours Truly:
    Steamed Jobs

  11. Kyle Goodwin says:

    It’s very hard to convince me to switch development from iPhone to WebOS when you’re not accepting developers into the preview, you’re not publishing the SDK, and your only time frame is “soon.” This is just not good developer relations and the success of this device/OS is directly dependent upon ISVs, so I suggest you get your act together before it’s too late.

  12. Sammie says:

    I was excited by prospects of developing apps for the Pre but it TRULY kills ALL my excitement and motivation when I see announcements on the main Palm blog about new apps for the Pre from independent developers. Does anyone at Palm realize how demoralizing it is for those of us that have not been accepted to see other developers get a head start like they have. Open up the SDK to everyone or there are many of us that are going away. Your excuse that you’re holding the SDK up because you want to make sure it’s right is laughable if you have new products being released by independent developers.

  13. Ralph Goy says:

    I’ve got the phone, now where’s the SDK? We’ve got a pretty serious business need here that will have to be met by the next generation of iphone if it’s released before the webos sdk becomes available. Please communicate a date certain when developers will be able to develop.

  14. Kevin Timm says:

    Oh well, it looks like Palm has decided for us that we don’t need to develop for their platform. I guess I’ll just keep selling my apps on iPhone (and all new development too).

    Bye Bye Palm :(

  15. Donald says:

    I guess it wont do me any good to ask a question and get an answer to it, I see the last seven days of questions and no answers.
    Sounds like a lot of developers are giving up.

  16. Charles Lawson says:

    I hope someone might read and take note of this but these are my suggested improvements to the Palm Pre:
    1. Set screen lock timer separate from dimmer timer
    2. Allow voice activation commands from Bluetooth headset
    3. Easier access to delete text messaging from the application menu(top left of screen)
    4. More options/customizing to application button (top left of screen)
    5. Able to set automatic default reminders(1 Week) for events like birthdays

  18. Duane says:

    I am very interested in porting my applications to the Pre, but it’s difficult to do any forward planning without an SDK to even validate the functionality and capabilities of the device. It pains me to say it, but Palm IS definitely driving away it’s core developer constituency with the delay in the Pre SDK availability.