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Fast Company is reporting on signs that Palm is continuing to try to position their webOS to go head on against Apple’s iPhone and are willing to ante up to get dealt in. Since games are the biggest sellers in the AppStore (unless you count fart apps) and the gaming community is squarely in Apple’s sites, it is little wonder that Palm is looking to improve the gaming profile of their OS.

Kim Eaton at Fast Company says…

A job listing has popped up indicating that Palm is looking for a "Game Frameworks Engineer," requiring a familiarity with 3-D hardware acceleration and pixel shading. It’s basically an indication that Palm plans to expand the graphical code that underpins WebOS. Some future version of the firmware will be capable of serious graphical feats–enough to get some good 3-D gaming action on the Pre.

I am very happy that Palm is continuing to look long term for the webOS. While the Pre may not have been as big a jackpot as they hoped, it definitely put them back in the game. A lot is resting on the choices they make now in developing the OS and creating the next wave of webOS devices. Improving the graphics capabilities and gaming stature is a good choice on their part, as long as they don’t move too far away from Palm’s natural affinity for productivity apps.

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