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"Palm webOS is the go-to platform for great games on two of the three leading carrier networks, " said Katie Mitic, senior vice president, Product Marketing, Palm, Inc.
Developers can download the beta PDK and start developing today, but distribution of games built with the beta PDK will require functionality provided in an upcoming Palm webOS update.
"The Palm webOS PDK is extremely powerful and far-reaching, as evidenced by the number of titles we've been able to bring to the webOS platform in a very short time, " said Baudouin Corman, vice president of publishing, Americas, Gameloft.
There is no doubt that HP is getting a large patent portfolio, a strong team of engineers, and a proprietary operating system in Palm webOS, and it is reasonable to assume that HP did not have other ways to acquire such assets for less than the price it is paying for Palm.
In April 2010, when HP acquired Palm, webOS developers were relieved the company had been saved, but wary about the changes the computing giant was likely to make to an operating system originally built for cellphones.
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Palm's webOS has never been a platform to stir the interest of the casual gamer.
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Looks like Palm's webOS Reset Doctor, intended for resetting Pre smartphones with a mangled system, has been outed to the public at large along with a very special bonus for hackers and other programming enthusiasts: a complete 195MB root image of webOS itself.
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Palm promised that webOS 2.0 would hit all of its devices in the "coming months, " and it looks like work is trucking right along -- we were just sent these shots of the updated OS running in beta form on the original Sprint Palm Pre.
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Second, an easy way (as Palm has shown in WebOS) to switch between them.
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The move has prompted questions of legal action from Apple, as the new Palm Pre, with webOS, performs remarkably similarly to Apple's iPhone.
Palm wants to bring its WebOS operating system to other U.S. carriers, which means Sprint has a limited monopoly on what makes the Pre special.
Unfortunately, as described by Craig A. Hunter, a self proclaimed "pretty dedicated iPhone developer" who's been poking around the WebOS SDK, Palm does not provide the environment to develop serious games or the kind of sophisticated apps users now expect from their handhelds.
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It's hard to think of a single good reason for Palm to implement iTunes syncing in webOS by spoofing the iPod, and then to play this cat-and-mouse game of hacks and workarounds with Apple.
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The two-year life of webOS, the operating system Palm created for its first Pre smartphone, has been marked by uncertainty.
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In a new wrinkle, HP also said it is discontinuing production of WebOS devices, basically killing the Palm hardware business.
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With its curved slider and gesture-controlled touch interface, Palm Pre fuses exquisite design with the revolutionary webOS software for fast access to content on the device or web.
The second was the news from the team working with the open source elements of WebOS, who have the former Palm operating system running on another Nexus device, the Nexus 7.
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Rubinstein, a gadget guru who helped create the iPod, is viewed as the driving force behind the creation of webOS and all recent webOS products, such as the Palm Pre series of smartphones and the TouchPad.
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As Palm and then HP found to their cost with WebOS (we could very easily put OpenWebOS into this list of pretenders to the throne), as Blackberry found with the PlayBook, and as even Microsoft has confronted with Windows Phone.
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Unfortunately for fans of Palm's last hurrah, the project's webOS port died with the HP Touchpad.
Sadly, it's reminiscent of webOS, the last hurrah of smartphone pioneer Palm Inc.
Outside Palm's inner circle of trusted partners, the webOS SDK (playfully named "Mojo") won't be released to would-be app developers until we get closer to the Pre's launch, but we know a few key details.
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Despite those growth prospects as well as the migration toward higher priced smartphones from mobile phones, in August 2011 HP announced plans to kill the TouchPad and WebOS smartphone business it acquired when it bought Palm in April-2010.
The device runs on WebOS, which it acquired when the company bought Palm last summer.
Palm makes its own, well-received operating system, webOS, which competes directly with Android.
Palm Synergy(TM), a key feature of the new webOS, brings your information from all the places it resides into one logical view.
The world already knew that HP planned to release a tablet PC running webOS, the operating system it acquired when it purchased Palm.
Following an apparent rejection of our suggestion of "Immaculate Collection, " Palm's Developer Network site suggests that the official name of its app store for webOS is simply going to be "App Catalog".
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