With the advent of WebOS 1.2 last week, the App Catalog was setup for the arrival of paid apps.  You could create your account, but there were no apps to buy.  You could only sit poised ready to purchase when the time came.  Well, today, that time came as a plethora of paid apps started showing up in the App Catalog.  Earlier today, there were only three games, but a few hours later there are nearly 20 paid apps and games, and I am sure plenty more are coming. 

I also checked out the purchasing experience, which is pretty seamless.  Your credit card information is stored in your online Palm account, not on your device. So, if you lose your device then your information is safe.  Still, I was not terribly thrilled to find that they accept only Mastercard and Visa.  No PayPal?  Hopefully Palm will consider getting PayPal in there. 

I can’t wait to see all of the apps and games which will be coming down the road.  I have already heard from a number of my favorite developers, many of whom reported having WebOS projects in the works, so hopefully those will start trickling out.  I also noticed quite a few apps which I recognized from the Homebrew App Catalog, so congrats to those folks as well.