So it turns out that this week is App Catalog Access Week for the webOS Wish List. We already touched on the need to expand the App Catalog to more than the less-than-a-dozen countries currently covered and revamping the app promo code system with global and shorter codes. Now it's time to supplement the current app-based promo codes with promo codes based around the one thing that makes the world go round: money.
HP has already demonstrated the ability to create monetary App Catalog promo codes – TouchPad early adopters received a promo code for $50 in apps back in August. The infrastructure is there, and it's already been exercised on a mass scale. The only thing missing is the ability for average Joe users to create their own App Catalog gift cards.
We'd like to propose two types of gifting for the App Catalog. We know that the chance of there being physical App Catalog gift cards like there are for the iOS App Store is practically nil, so we're totally cool with this being all digital. The first type is the monetary type, where through the hpwebos.com website users can create an App Catalog gift card for whatever amount they want and send it to a desired user. The second is the ability to gift a specific app, which one would be able to do through the website or through the App Catalog app itself. both would quite simply generate the appropriate promo code and email it to the recipient with appropriate flavor text about what it is and who sent it to them.
Like the global promo codes, this would make our lives at webOS Nation and that of developers quite a bit easier, but it would also give our friends and family new options for quick-and-easy gifts. Certainly it'd be less silly than the app gifting suggestion we had to include in our Holiday Gift Guides – forcibly acquire their device, download and install the app and pay for it with their registered credit card, and then give them the app price plus applicable sales tax as compensation.
Have your own thoughts on this webOS Wish List entry? Of course you do – the comments are below. Surely you have your own ideas as to what ought be on the webOS wish list, and so we've created a forum thread just for what has proven to be an awesome discussion.
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