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Over at Digital Daily, John Paczkowski says it is confirmed that the Palm will start offering applications for a fee on its popular webOS that runs on the Palm Pre.  This is the news many Palm fans have hoped for and represents a milestone for the Palm team.  Many have suggested Palm has to have a robust paid application store for its new platform to succeed.

Paczkowski says September 24th, 2009 is the day the App Catalog goes paid and developers can charge for their third party applications like Apple’s uber-successful App Store for the iPhone.  Rumors swirled today that the GSM Palm Pre version would drop in Europe sometime this fall to compliment the paid apps.

Currently, Palm’s App Catalog is filled with free applications.  Adding paid applications provides developers the incentive to build lucrative apps.  Palm is hoping its App Catalog can duplicate the success that Apple’s has.

Our man Iyaz got some hands-on time with the Palm Pixi, a sibling to the Pre that runs the very same webOS, and was impressed.  As Palm develops more and more phones on the webOS and more carriers offer their products, the incentive for developers increases quickly.  It looks clear that Palm hopes to kick things into high gear rather fast.

Read [Digital Daily]