Palm has always had a good relationship with developers. I used to develop for the original Palm OS 3 using both the official tools and a GCC tool chain. It was a pleasure developing for the platform and virtually no part of the system was off limits.<p>Palm needs to start courting developers again. They have a state of the art mobile operating system, a very open API, an excellent set of tools and terms of use that don't dictate how apps can be developed. All of that makes for a fun development environment.<p>Palm hasn't sold as many devices as apple or android so they won't attract as many developers who are writing apps for profit, but what they <i>will</i> attract are hackers and tinkerers and creative types who like to push and poke and see what happens when they do xyz. I think that in itself will attract higher quality apps and that will be key: quality not quantity.<p>As a user, would I really care that your platform has 150000 apps and mine has <i>only</i> 2200? No. As long as the major apps are there (which they are for webOS) it doesn't really matter.<p>Palm should stop trying to be Apple and start being Palm again