15 June 2009
Palm silencing curious devs

Filed under Hardware + Internet + Software

You knew it was going to happen, but did we ever imagine the hackers to be culpable? Palm is silencing the Pre Dev Wiki by “politely” warning them to not discuss tethering, as it may anger The Sprint Gods.

Palm needs every developer to extol the awesomeness of this device and the wholesomeness of the company. They need them to lure people away from the iPhone. Sprint needs every subscriber. If they plan on getting them with the Pre, they need some good apps and a reason to move the early adopters — the ones that want to hack in tethering — over from other carriers.

The beginning of the end, I say ….

2009-06-15  ::  mark