Palm announced at CES 2010 that they would open up their webOS App Catalog and all its app-related data/metrics to third parties in a relocation to light a crowd-sourced webOS diligence merchandising effort. Palm (NSDQ: PALM) doesn’t wealthy person a strong distribution chopines in its App Catalog to compete with the likes of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s highly visible and tightly integrated iTunes AppStore and or Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s fast-maturation Android Market, so they’re looking at to the webOS community to drive adoption. The webOS community has answered that call option. A new web-based app store, called HouseOfPalm, was recently launched to bring the App Catalog to the vane.
HouseOfPalm features more comprehensive information than the App Catalog itself. The online webOS store displays apps be family, download/publishing inforation, app ratings, screenshots. The website, disdain its uninspired design, gives webOS users a new way to discover and browse webOS apps on a larger computer blind. You’ll find about 1,000 webOS apps in the HouseOfPalm portfolio.
Find HouseOfPalm here.