Today Palm gave a fancy presentation at CES, not only to announce the new Plus series for Verizon but also to showcase some awesome new features such as pure 3D gaming, video recording and editing, and new services and tools for developers that will may even allow you and I to develop a quick web app for the Pre. After watching Microsoft’s sleepnote last night, Jon Rubinstein and crew gave an amazing presentation that really showcased his company’s strengths. Looks like a little of that Apple keynote juice rubbed off.

Anyways, this new Palm stuff is excellent; they truly have upped the anti and may even make me a little jealous of the new Pre coming to Verizon. But really, with all of the crazy, wild Android rage at CES this year, does webOS have enough gas to make it this year? Some were speculating in 2010 prediction shows that Palm may not make it this year; that they may actually crumble. Yet after this presentation and bundle of announcements, this tech guy think that they will make it.

Too enticing to fail

If nothing else, here is the reason that Palm will make it: being developer friendly. Having video taking and editing, being on a good network, and 3D gaming is important, but as we have seen all last year and what we will continue to see this year is that app stores are what is important. The only way to have excellent app stores is to entice excellent developers. With Palm opening up hardware utilization with code they are trying to open the flood gates for developers. It has also been said by many developers how much more superior the development tools for webOS are in comparison to Android and even iPhone. That coupled with a more open platform than the iPhone, Palm is trying hard to entice users and developers while creating good will.

I believe that Palm will make it this year and I also believe that they are creating a great platform for developers that other companies would kill for. The question now is, with so many Android and webOS devices headed to multiple carriers, which phone and platform to choose?