Paul Ardeleanu

Palm has been busy lately creating their development tool that will allow programmers to build applications for the Palm Pre and Pixi (only these two handsets are running Palm's WebOS at the moment).

It's been less than 2 days since Steve Jobs announced the iPad and turned the IT world upside-down.

It is indeed a device that will revolutionize the way regular, non-techie, users will interact and understand those "interactive TVs".

I can't stop myself laughing at such "bombshell". Let me explain why!

First of all, the article cites a "mobile developer": Peter-Paul Koch. As it happens, he's not a mobile developer but a "mobile platform strategist, consultant, and trainer" and "he concentrates on Web technologies, mobile websites, and W3C Widgets".

Secondly, he's confusing native apps with apps delivered through the integrated browser. Here are couple of reasons why it's not even close to the truth...

Lots of people are questioning the way Apple deals with iPhone developers - plenty of voices said bad words about Apple.

Whilst some of the accusations might stand, they ignore the fact that this is a entirely new ecosystem and it takes time to tweak things and arrange all the puzzle pieces in the right place.

"The reality is the gold rush days of the App Store are long over ? that?s not to say there isn?t loads of gold still locked up in the hills, it?s just all the easy gold deposits have been scoured and panned for and found. The market has matured, and App Store customers? tastes and demands have grown more sophisticated. Success stories these days tend to be of hard earned fortunes and corporate bought victories instead of the parade of indie lottery-winner stories we heard again and again during the App Store?s early days."