webOS Developers Not Limited to Store
In a follow up to yesterdays post, I've just been going over the new Palm Developer Centre and was surprised, and happy, to see that developers can choose between distributing their apps through the Palm App Catalogue, or if they choose, via their own site or blog.
Palm offers multiple ways to distribute the apps you create, so you can choose whichever ones work best for your business.
The App Catalog built in to every webOS phone gives customers one simple and direct place to shop for paid and free apps, all of which are downloaded over the air.
If you're looking to get your app to customers outside of the App Catalog, you can use our web distribution option. Doing so gives you a unique URL that lets customers install your app either from their phone or desktop browser. You can distribute that URL through online directories and communities—or any other way. With Palm, your reach isn't limited to a single store; it's as broad as the web itself.
It doesn't mention if the app still needs to be submitted for approval by Palm before a URL will be supplied when distributing via a 3rd party site.Â
