Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Its very interesting and maybe microsoft is giving the nail for 3rd because they supposedly give devs 600,000 (bribe maybe?)
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
mikeo007 No. It's simple, many of the big devs are playing the "watch and wait" game.
In the case of Whatsapp, why would Apple blackmail them to stop them from being on ONE additional platform?
It's already available on Android, Nokia, Symbian, BBOS and Windows phone.
Some people around here are really starting to let the Apple hate impair even their most basic cognitive functions.
This is the reality of the situation. No conspiracy. Devs don't want to invest resources in something that could potentially fall flat on its face. Do I think RIM has a good shot. I sure do.
However it is do or die for RIM so its makes sense for devs to take a wait and see approach. There are also those who like what they see so far,have faith and therefore all in.
Its Rims field of dreams...If they build it..they will come. If BlackBerry10 does well we can expect to see the apps that weren't there at launch to start showing up one by one.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
AfroZepher They see a future with MS because WP8 can fail and the money will be there for WP9-10-11 etc.
BlackBerry10 on the other hand, well let's just say if 10 fails in all likelihood there will be no 11.
MS has the cash to stay relevant even it they aren't relevant lol they can try try try again. RIM cannot. Its do or die.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
CrackedBarry Why would they support it? Seriously?
It's a brand new platform with 50/50 chances of succeeding (or slightly worse, in reality).
Why on earth would you go out and make a serious investment in money and time (which is even more money) when you don't know
A: Whether it'll succeed at all.
B: If it succeeds, will it only be in Nigeria and Indonesia, and not in the markets that are interesting for developers.
C: if there will be serious bugs/technical issues.
On top of all of that you can add a shrug and "Meh, I guess they can just use the Android App player. If I make an Android app I'm covered both ways.
What any smart developer will do, is keep the playing field in mind, as well as the fact that its a 1.0 product and wait six months or a year and see how it's doing.
In tech circles, among developers, media and bloggers RIM is considered pretty much dead by the side of the road already, so making the decision to go out and develop for it takes a lot of persuasion and consideration...
If you say Devs aren't interested in making inroads to chat-based app in indonesia and nigeria, you're probably just being selectively biased (based on your posts in other threads) about how FaceBook just very recently changed their strategy to allow facebook messaging without signing up for a facebook account; activated in India, Indonesia, etc (predominantly BBM market) for costs of lower than 30cents USD per week.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
texazzpete Windows Phone has FAR more users than the Playbook...and naturally more users than BB10 (because it hasn't been released )
There are more users with BBOS devices than WP, but nobody wants to develop for a dying OS that even the parent company isn't showing much love.
I think your post is pure troll, sorry to say pal. You're comparing a Phone OS to a tablet OS? and we aren't talking about bbos, we are talking about bb10.
It is receiving love so please, some facts would be awesome.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
ichat I think your post is pure troll, sorry to say pal. You're comparing a Phone OS to a tablet OS? and we aren't talking about bbos, we are talking about bb10.
It is receiving love so please, some facts would be awesome.
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pb os and bb10 are essentially the same thing so it's a valid comparison. you cannot say that a dev should develop for blackberry because it has 80 million users when all 80 are on bbos and 0 on bb10. but you can assume that whatsapp developed for playbook would work on bb10.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
sexybabe88 pb os and bb10 are essentially the same thing so it's a valid comparison. you cannot say that a dev should develop for blackberry because it has 80 million users when all 80 are on bbos and 0 on bb10. but you can assume that whatsapp developed for playbook would work on bb10.
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Essentially, yes but I still feel it was a tablet comparison and everyone doesn't need a tablet and use one.
People need a phone and even if the os is the same, it will have many more users than there are on the PlayBook.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
No. Apple is not worried enough about RIM to even try that type of thing. Not yet. If BB10 is a runaway hit, things might change. But even then it would be some sort of "exclusively develop for iOS" program. Not cash behind the scenes. It would be public. You'd not need to guess.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Why would Whatsapp lose business by not releasing a BB10 version is beyond me..
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
pkcable Interestingly the converted android app DOES work on the Dev Alpha, so worstcase we will be able to sideload that. Now why they don't just convert it officially it a mystery.
Oh really?! Looking forward to that!
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