As the HP TouchPad broadens webOS’ footprint around the world, the webOS App Catalog will open its doors in four new countries – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. Once people power up their shiny new TouchPads, we want them to access as many of your great apps as possible.
Here are some things we’re doing to help make that happen:
- Developers may now submit apps to the App Catalog specifically for these countries
- All free apps marked in the catalog for “rest of the world” will be made available automatically in the App Catalog for these countries, which include TouchPad apps and smartphone apps that have been tested and approved as TouchPad-compatible.
If you do not wish to make your app available in these countries, you can manually deselect them in the “My Apps” tab when you log into your account. Also, please note that at launch, only free apps will be available in the App Catalog for these countries. We plan to offer paid apps in these App Catalogs soon, so stay tuned for more details.
Good news! Is there a roadmap for the rest of the world in specific Switzerland?
Thanks for the comment! As far as your question, we’ll share more details as they become available.
+1 on Switzerland, come on guys, this is getting seriously annoying. I have a Pre since the beginning and I still can’t buy anything, this is more than annoying.
Great that you are expanding to new markets! I’m eager about buying both TouchPad and Pre3 here in Norway. Don’t forget that Europe is more than UK, France, Germany and Spain.
Can’t wait to purchase apps in Australia! I’ve unfortunately had to resort to some dodgy mean to get apps on my Pre.
Russia is also a part of Europe and has a big Palm loyal user base. We are waiting you HP!
Wrote this on my new TouchPad. Спасибо.
Availability plans for Brazil?
Finland would be neat too.
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And of course, Sweden. Could you explain why the app catalog rollout is being done country by country this way? Is it payments that are complicated? Laws? Review process?
Being a new developer betting on WebOS is hard when I can’t make local apps for my own country.
regards, Göran