RIM giving away BlackBerry PlayBook to Android Developers

3. Lucas777 posted on 02 Feb 2012, 21:45 0 0

in my opinion, bb should just stop making home grown software and use wp7.5 instead… it has many of the business features, and rim can add whatever they need… it has the whole smartphone thing going and is by far better than bbos… and also they could easily secure a wp7 niche, before nokia and everyone else penetrate the us market… i think windows phone on a torch-like device with that killer portrait keyboard would be quite nice

4. protozeloz posted on 03 Feb 2012, 05:25 0 1

I think qnix was nice . Rim was too busy messing around to show its potential. I think they could have 2 lines an Android and a wp lineup with the bb enterprise protection. It could be nice .

7. Lucas777 posted on 03 Feb 2012, 18:52 0 0

that would be too much for them… qnx is very nice, but it requires rim to focus a ] lot of efforts on os.. with wp7, they would have business and the "cool" factor… and i think there is enough android manufacturers that android would just be a headache for rim

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8. protozeloz posted on 03 Feb 2012, 20:32 0 0

I guess they will have it tough in there. You have a point. Anyway as oss evolve and things move to the cloud we might not even need rim anymore any manufacturer can make a phone with a bb stile keyboard and a big work environment. Maybe rim will continue to sink. Hope not ..... for the sake of all those jobs . But every day I ask myself does RIM model of doing will become obsolete? What appeal it might have aside from a known brand name? Push email is really common this days and more entertaining OS's are becoming more secure.

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5. downphoenix posted on 03 Feb 2012, 15:37 0 0

How dare they try to make efforts to secure more app developers and apps! Playbook is great, you clearly have never used one. The device is great especially for the price, great OS, great design, great hardware. Apps are hurting it a lot though but if they can get more app developers on board with offers like this it will help a lot. And its not a burning platform because its still alive.

6. protozeloz posted on 03 Feb 2012, 16:24 0 0

MS has developed ways for devs to have their code ported to WP if they want to, yeah the virtual machine runs android apps so what? it has limitations based on how deep the app uses system tools exclusive to android.

yeah I said the OS was good but so WEBOS was good and look what happened to it.... being good is not enough these days why would the average buy?

-iOS has its appeal in a clean app store and unified hardware. and ease of use

-android offers bleeding edge tech and every size the user might like

-WP will offer a OS that looks similar to a desktop experience with Windows 8.and a differentiated yet simple UI

so in terms of smooth it cant beat iOS in terms being different it cant beat WP and in terms of customization it cant beat android. it also lacks content. so whats the playbook good for? web browser? plus what kind of strong campaign are they running? I mean whats exactly their appeal? as a newbie programmer I make those questions when considering the effort of submitting an app for a new OS.

every tablet is trying to cover for a field they try to excel at something whats the PB trying to excel at? even the idea of saying that devs should not promote their android apps on the market is dumb they are putting no actual effort in trying to have people using their SDK and specific features but rather another OS's