Web distribution. Recognizing the value of the web community and the web as a promotional channel, Palm will invest in the tools and services that help you utilize the web and other online channels as powerful promotional opportunities for webOS applications. This approach also addresses feedback we’ve heard from developers who are frustrated by a review-first, publish-later process.

I agree 100%. I’m also going to switch to the Palm Pre sometime this fall. It’s not 1 Google App for me, it’s the whole SDK + App store.

1) I had to send them court documents from 4 years ago to get my dev license (?!?) 2) Many apps have been denied, after countless hours of design and development

I’ve finally decided we are giving up too much control to Apple and AT&T.

Imagine if the original Mac OS or Windows 3.1 would only run “approved apps” and required development licenses.

All “app stores” should have a “Unsupported” category which are accept 100% without review. Users are warned as much and no dev license is required to create the apps. This get’s us back to the basic freedoms provided by a 20th century software market.

Ben's got a SDK and is working on a jogging app for the Palm Pre.

In all, Palm put as much effort into making the webOS a first-rate messaging experience as Apple did into making the iPhone a first-rate media experience, and with just as much success. So if most of your communication consists of Twitter, email, SMS, and IM with the people in your Facebook network and/or Gmail contacts list, then the Pre will do for your personal messaging what your work BlackBerry does for your business messaging. Furthermore, I'm sure that email, SMS, Twitter, and IM aren't the end of it—I expect that things like Facebook updates will shortly be added to the list of notifications that can be pushed to you on the device. In short, if it's an update or message that comes from a network service, it's likely that the webOS's Synergy component will support it eventually.