Merely two weeks before release, developers continue to await Palm Pre SDK

Palm’s “Pre smartphone will be available from Sprint on June 6, but Palm has remained quiet about when the software development kit will be generally available for the device,” Paul Krill reports for InfoWorld.

“Palm is accepting applications from developers to test-drive the SDK, said Leslie Letts, Palm representative. But she did not know how many developers actually have had access. ‘We’ve always said as we get closer to availability, we’d share more detains [sic] on when the SDK would be public,’ Letts said Tuesday,” Krill reports. “But a couple of developers interviewed said they have been unable to get it.”

“In explaining the limited access, the Palm Developer Network Web site said the company was still working on developer resources,” Krill reports.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Let’s see…

Total apps:
• Apple App Store: 35,000+
• Google Android: 3,000+
• BlackBerry App World: 800+ (generous estimate)
• Palm App Catalog: Currently in Maintenance Mode

“Pre?” They should’ve named it “Travesty.”

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