Palm has drawn a lot of raised eyebrows from the developer community for not expanding their SDK program more rapidly. As well as there being a lack of applications in the catalog for users in comparison to other companies, the Mojo dev kit has been withheld from developers keen to produce apps for the new webOS software.
Now Chuq Von Rospach has responded to the criticisms being levelled at Palm:
The primary limitation we have today is the capacity of our developer area, which wasn’t built to support the number of developers who want access. That’s actually a good problem to have, and we have a team working on bulking up the infrastructure, too. There are some really interesting things just over the horizon here, but it takes time.
If you think about it, if we let too many people in too fast and everything does the fail whale, we’ll get yelled at and developers will give up on us. I realize that there are some developers who are tired of waiting — and I fully understand — but I hope they’ll come and take another look at us later when we finish the SDK up and get it out to everyone. If we mess up the SDK or the tools, we risk driving away lots of developers and convincing them not to come back. It’s a fun and challenging balancing act.
Our current admission policy is fairly simple: we’re accepting in applications based on how complete and detailed the applications were. I’ve broken that up into a few different piles of applications, and within each pile, we’re admitting them based on when they sent us the application. Right now, the most detailed applications are going in; when we finish that, we’ll grab the next set and do the same until everyone is in the program or we release the SDK to the public and end the early access program.
Basically give us time. We are working on it. There’s more to come.
Stick around Palm fans. Big things will happen.
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