Palm has announced that almost all Palm webOS apps will be 50% off from June 18th through July 9th. Palm developers won’t loose a dime on this promotion, since Palm will subsidize the 50% discount for developers: “Palm will subsidize the cost of the discounted price for developers; payments to developers and revenue tracking for the Hot Apps contest will continue to reflect the full price of all eligible applications throughout the promotion.” There a few exceptions to the promotions but almost all the apps in the app store are included in this promotion.
the real question is, what is the future of Web OS?
HP has clearly said that they acquired Palm for webOS, so I really don’t think there’s a lot of concern about that.
The real concern is over HP/Palm’s future in the superphone market.