As the Palm Pre nears launch, we will be hearing from more and more developers about their expectations and experience with the new platform. Shaun from PDA-247 interviewed Bryan Nystrom from Natara Software about webOS. Bryan had a somewhat pessimistic take on WebOS, stressing the point that Palm will succeed only if they achieve mass-market distribution of the Pre.
"Although Palm made a great showing at CES with the Palm Pre, and made even myself wish I had one, they need to sell a lot of devices and have a lot of great 3rd party software at launch time."
Another point he brought up is that distrubuters such as Handango and PalmGear are taking higher and higher cuts from sales, while doing little to promote software from the smaller developers. Will the Palm App Catalog be the solution to 3rd party distribution? The App Store has done wonders for iPhone developers, so we think developers such as Natara Software may have a bright future after all.
The interview can be found here.
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