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iPhone Games Can be Ported to Palm webOS PDK in Days - The Competition

2010-03-08 07:37
It seems like Palm 8217;s new webOS PDK (plug-in development kit) can be used to port over iPhone games in a matter of days 8212; or even hours. Given how fast some iPhone games have turned up on the Palm Pre we 8217;ve kind of suspect there was a little something something going on behind the screen, and our sibling site PreCentral.net confirmed it by way of Digital Daily 8217;s pre-GDC coverage. As just mentioned, I 8217;ll be at GDC to have a look at what they 8217;re doing. If it 8217;s really just that easy to get your iPhone games onto webOS, then Palm has once again made their platform as frictionless as possible for developers (on top of the web technology SDK and Classic PalmOS emulation). Smart. Windows Phone 7 Series looks to be packing Xbox Live gaming muscle, so they likely won 8217;t go the same route as Palm... but could Android and BlackBerry And if developers can keep making great iPhone games and get webOS (and maybe others) as a bonus, is that ultimately better for iPhone gamers, or does it weaken the uniqueness of the platform If it does, will there eventually be exclusives like there are on Xbox and Playstation, or will Apple do more first-party games like the console makers 8212; especially Nintendo 8212; do iPhone Games Can be Ported to Palm webOS PDK in Days 8212; The Competition is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The 1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Blog
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