Video: Need For Speed On Pre Raises Interesting Questions
Wow. Either Palm are a lot further along with that much lusted-after Pre GPU support than we all thought, or PreCentral forum member casperstar is laughing his butt off as he perpetuates one of the greatest Palm hoaxes of all time. The aforementioned poster has published a video (since taken down and then re-uploaded by another helpful person) of what he claims is a version of Need For Speed for the Pre, which utilises the GPU. In addition, he's also posted shots of what looks like a secret internal Palm App Catalog, with 495 apps in stock.
If it's true, then this is intriguing for several reasons: first and foremost, if Palm does indeed have a native SDK out there (and this sure doesn't seem to have been coded in Javascript), then why aren't the rank-and-file of webOS developers being allowed access? Video after the break, along with the leaked screenshots.
Thanks to PreCentral for the tip.
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RE: Flash based?
Native SDK
The history of this business has shown time and time again that two tier marketing based on company name and past record does not optimize revenue. In fact, it holds it back with said companies of "reputation and achievement" delivering lesser performing code with their name and IP not making up for lack of sales.
RE: Native SDK
RE: Native SDK
The Palm OS emulator has been out for over six months now and there are other "elite" types getting access to it. I'm personally convinced they are trying to shove out the little guy under the direction of some MBA having Lemon Drops with their classmates at cooperating companies. I highly doubt that Palm will ever get back the fanatical developer base they used to have.
P.S: To that one person whom I know your favorite drink is a Lemon Drop, you should not talk business too much at those swank bars up in Palo Alto.
RE: Native SDK
http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/11/apple_is_not_ev.html
RE: Native SDK
Honestly, if there is anything I don't trust it is Palm's mercenary app store. If you read the app store agreement, you are putting yourself in for manipulation.
There are a lot of developers that are not going webOS on this. Is giving kickbacks to app store managers payola?
Well Rehearsed Video!!!
Good Job, you got everyone talking :-D
ScottG
Interesting Editing Job...
I don't know how it was done, but even leaving aside the graphics issue (which it's always possible they fixed on this "new" update), the screen doesn't look right to me.
RE: Interesting Editing Job...
As a fake of a video game, it's not that impressive to anyone who knows anything about WebOS's current state. But I do find it interesting as a video edit.
RE: Interesting Editing Job...
bhartman34 wrote:
I don't think there's any question but that this is a fake. The more interesting thing to me is that the edges of the picture seem to be squared off, rather than rounded, as they are on the Pre's display.I don't know how it was done, but even leaving aside the graphics issue (which it's always possible they fixed on this "new" update), the screen doesn't look right to me.
I'll leave the question of whether or not this video is fake to the experts around here. But I think I should point out that squaring off the edges of the Pre's screen can by done via homebrew tweak with Jason Robitaille's QuickInstall utility.
http://forums.precentral.net/canuck-software/206905-webos-quick-install-v2-9-a.html
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Flash based?
I'm pretty sure they're working closely with Palm. In the end, with providing Adobe with the necessary means to adopt Flash to the Pre, Palm practicaly gains a second, way more powerful way of writing applications for their platform. Wanna make a simple application just displaying some data or information, go for HTML and Javascript. Want to make something performant with hardware accelerated animations and stuff, just do a Flash-based application.
In addition, assunming that the mobile version of Flash will be nearly as powerful as the desktop version, this might even render the need for a better SDK from Palm obsolete and would furthermore allow thousands of existing Flash applications to be ported to the Pre relatively easily. Might that be what Palm has been planning all along?
I DO think that Flash running on the Pre's hardware is powerful enought to build a game such as shown in the video.