Early feedback looking good; developers dig webOS

By on Apr 18, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Software April 18, 2009

It was pretty clear from the start that Palm has big plans for webOS — despite blogger excitement when the company confirmed more webOS handsets would be coming, Palm obviously didn’t build a new OS from the ground up for one device. What has been and is still up in the air however, is how developers will respond to webOS and its development environment, the Mojo SDK. Palm, like other smartphone companies, will be relying heavily on third parties to enhance its platform by introducing exciting, innovative and useful applications. We know the Pre is sexy and we know the webOS UI is sexy, but what about the guts? According to Network World, developers who have been checking out the SDK so far seem to feel that Mojo is both very inviting and easy to work with. Score. Palm chose JavaScript, HTML and CSS the foundation for apps and as such, there is nothing new for developers to learn. If they can build a web page, they can build a webOS app. Christian Sepulveda, vice president of business development at Pivotal Labs is quoted as saying, “It’s a completely new way of thinking about an OS on mobile devices.” He’s right of course — Palm has taken old and familiar technology accessible to just about any dev out there, and hidden it beneath a stunning UI and UX. We don’t know about you, but we can’t wait to see what devs can do with this killer combo.

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  • joe curve

    The mother of all wars
    THE TANDA BACKBEAT CIRCUS
    ******** to be very honest this david thande guy is creepy to sya the least. Don’t think so? Just get over and press the link under his name. And he is the first 1 to bring up these “sitting mext to you” crap. A bit more and BGR will have to be rated. ————————
    To the point though. Palm vs BB. At this point, I think anybody would agree that anything without a full HTML/flash/java will be considered a shortcoming. The expectation is sooooo big these days. Especially the hype over the Pre, that anything less will be considered a failure!

  • joe curve

    Can’t wait for the BG posts -somewhere in the coming weeks, months- dealing with “pre/niagara” releases, OMG the BGR-blogsphere, the titans at war, back-to-back-belly-to-belly comments. Backbeat,thande and ohh the “1st” ones to reach…….

  • http://DavidThande.Blogspot.com David Thande

    Oh…..this…keeps me….entertained….lol…I’m looking sooo forward to…..the 9630….BGR….send us some info…launch…date?

  • jcunwired
  • Don Louie

    Good find, I would’ve put it in the hype article, if I did links. Man I’m lazy

  • Informed

    The best thing to do is, ignore backbeat. Blogs are obvious the only we he/she engages in a social life.

  • backbeat

    … While RIMM @ 65.10 [after how many splits?] and APPL @ 120.27 giggle under their breath.
    :)

  • Rob Schoenfeld

    Wow I can’t believe the immaturity of some of the commenter’s on here for shame you two. Anyway Niagara offers rock solid reliability for business users. The Pre offers a great touch UI with a keyboard. Different strokes for different folks.

  • backbeat

    @Rob Schoenfeld who made the following errant misstatements:

    “Anyway Niagara offers rock solid reliability for business users. The Pre offers a great touch UI with a keyboard.”

    Really? How long have you been using either? Who was your supplier? What was your price? How many hours have you spent with each device? How long have you been using either on a professional basis? How are you liking continually shoveling $$$ into the same software -subscriptions- that you previously paid for once via license?

  • Tim

    So now we have to worry about malicious java script code

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