Your response totally skirts the issue.

Applications developed with Palm’s SDK can be sold and loaded on the Palm Pre outside of Palm’s approval, and outside of Palm’s App Catalog. With the iPhone, all Apps for sale must be submitted to Apple for approval or refusal and can only be sold through Apple’s App Store. Palm has revealed through ad postings for Game Frameworks Engineers the desired skill sets to “design, implement, debug, and optimize frameworks for game development.” It is obvious that Palm does not publicize their future plans, but the writing is obviously on the wall that their WebOS SDK is fast evolving and will expose functionality that will harness the Palm Pre hardware and graphics engine. And yes, with Palms long history of developing their PalmOS mobile operating system, the precursor to WebOS, developers were able to write native applications for Palm’s mobile devices in the “C” Language. It is obvious that Palm possesses these capabilities, and will continue to surprise us with enhancements to the WebOS SDK while at the same time embracing the developer community in an open and transparent manner that Windows developers have come to expect, love and appreciate.

iPhone has 2 app platforms:

- native apps built with CocoaTouch and distributed commercially or non-commercially via App Store and requiring approvals

- Web apps built with HTML5 and distributed commercially or non-commercially via any Web server and not requiring any approvals

With iPhone, a developer can choose either yin or yang, they are not limited at all. You can be part of a highly managed App Store platform or a wide open HTML5 platform.

Pre has 1 app platform:

- Widgets built with HTML5 and distributed either commercially via App Catalog with approvals or non-commercially via any Web server without approvals.

How is that a win for Palm?

iPhone has native and Web apps; Palm has widgets. Where is the Pre native SDK? Not available. The only native app on Pre is the Web browser, in which all 3rd party apps run because they are widgets.

Consider also that iPhone Web apps have access to hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, and Pre apps do not. Consider that all you have to do to make your Web app iPhone-compatible is add a touch icon to the server, but with Pre you have to roll up your app into a widget.

So if the big news is that you can run Web apps on Pre without approval, that is yet another Pre first that was actually done years ago by iPhone. I made my first Web app for iPhone before the iPhone was even launched and it required no approvals.

Now, if Palm is going to do a native SDK, then let’s hear about that. They’ve been making phones for 10 years now, after all.