Another reason for not rooting would be a developer who wants to sell an application that for what ever reason Palm will not put in the app store. They should have a easy way of distributing the application.

I feel that the most secure way of offering the loading of software would be USB. Another thought would be possibly a USB one time load of an application that in itself would be Homebrew Catalog that would allow you to download from a catalog via wireless.

The downside to that method would be having to maintain a public software repository. It wouldn't have to host the software but rather it would be a link essentially that would transfer it from the developers hosting.

Maybe the application could be configurable for 'Sources' Either way, you have to find a way to get any application on to the device.

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