The Palm Pre and Palm Pixi are great little smartphones, but at this point, it’s clear that the platform is languishing behind the likes of the iPhone, Google Android and Microsoft. Palm and Sprint both needed a hit phone as a hail mary pass, but it’s just not generating the sort of public clamor it should. And a big part of the problem is the Pre’s app strategy: it’s barely there.
Palm seems to know this, which is why they’ve announced Ares. Ares is a browser based, drag and drop development toolkit for making simple apps that run on the Pre and Pixi.
The way it works is simple. Software written in Ares are actually web apps, down to the one. The resulting apps are actually designed in a browser, written in web languages and even rendered like a web page. Where it differs is the way the resulting app is packaged: the Ares tool simply wraps them up as a native Palm Pre or Pixi app.
The goal is to “help web developers make the leap to becoming mobile developers.” This is a step further than even what webOS and the Mojo SDK already do. But the problem with the Pre and Pixi is that all of their apps are basically already web apps. Palm needs Google Android and iPhone like app functionality to compete, along with adoption rates. They don’t have either.
Still, this can’t hurt, and it’s a step-up from Palm’s nebulous current app strategy. Ares will be available by the end of the year.
Source: geek.com ( Nov. 6, 2009 (1:22 pm) By: John Brownlee)
Palm seems to know this, which is why they’ve announced Ares. Ares is a browser based, drag and drop development toolkit for making simple apps that run on the Pre and Pixi.
The way it works is simple. Software written in Ares are actually web apps, down to the one. The resulting apps are actually designed in a browser, written in web languages and even rendered like a web page. Where it differs is the way the resulting app is packaged: the Ares tool simply wraps them up as a native Palm Pre or Pixi app.
The goal is to “help web developers make the leap to becoming mobile developers.” This is a step further than even what webOS and the Mojo SDK already do. But the problem with the Pre and Pixi is that all of their apps are basically already web apps. Palm needs Google Android and iPhone like app functionality to compete, along with adoption rates. They don’t have either.
Still, this can’t hurt, and it’s a step-up from Palm’s nebulous current app strategy. Ares will be available by the end of the year.
Source: geek.com ( Nov. 6, 2009 (1:22 pm) By: John Brownlee)
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