Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, the Mozilla luminaries Palm brought on board in September to co-direct developer relations, sat down recently for an interview with IT Conversations' Phil Windley. Among the topics discussed are their move to Palm from Mozilla, their aspirations on shaping the future of the Web, and where they see the development platform going in general.
If you’re not familiar with who these two are, you should be: they're poised to push the boundaries of what's possible with the Web as a platform for application distribution and development (see: Ares) through their positions as Palm.
The two strongly believe that the Web is going to play a crucial part in the development of the webOS ecosystem, and Dion expands on some of the concepts first revealed when they announced the developer program last month. In addition to a robust on device app catalog, there will be another option that allows developers to simply submit an app and get a URL that points to their applications that’s hosted by Palm. The two envision that end users will create their own method of distributing apps that utilize the raw feeds provided by Palm (a concept which should already be familiar to many of you) to build their own, more specific application catalogs.
Head over to IT Conversations and listen to the full interview where these and several other topics, including Apple’s failed flirtation with the Web as distribution platform in the early days of the iPhone, are touched on. It’s required listening for anyone who's interested in where the future of mobile computing is headed.
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I love the Palm guys using a Macbook
I fail to see the irony in that. What does it matter which OS their laptop runs? Would you say the same thing if it were a Windows OS? If you're referring to Apple being a Palm competitor in the mobile space, then that makes about as much sense as saying "I love how the Palm guys use a Motorola bluetooth headset" or "I love how the Palm guys use Samsung projectors"?
Exactly. Following the joke I may add they should use Foleos as development machines :P. Albeit with the Ares web environment it could actually be posible if the foleo existed. This makes me think about how a computer with just google chrome os would be perfectly valid as a development machine for webOS devices if using Ares. Wouldnt it?
enormous, thanks for being obvious. The kid sounded like another iPhone punk trying to get a few punches in. If he is a Palm user he shouldve just said thank you. If he is an iDiot, than we should just let the kid play in the street
Of all the pictures of us, you picked the one where we have ties on? ;-) That was a gag for a JavaFX vs. Web talk we gave at JavaOne earlier this year.
I do own a Foleo, but sadly, it's not much of a development platform.
@ben - have you tried putting WebOS on it?
@prebulls: Nope. It's fun to have a Foleo but I have such a paucity of free time that I just don't get the time to play with it (and my other vintage hardware) like I used to. So I keep it on the shelf next to my Mac SE, Roland MT-32, and other toys of gadget past.
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