What's the deal with Amazon and Blackberry?
- With the Amazon Appstore being on Blackberry, I wonder why they don't work on getting more Amazon services to Blackberry natively. As an Amazon customer who is subscribed to Prime, Audible, and constantly uses their store, I know that having official native apps for Amazons services would significantly increase the value of my Blackberry for me. It means less reason to go back to Google and Android.
Posted via CB1004-26-15 11:22 AMLike 4 - There had been many discussion threads about this.
Posted via the CrackBerry App for AndroidFairlightRacing likes this.04-26-15 12:11 PMLike 1 - Also the Amazon App Store and Shopping app are slow as heck on the Classic. What's up with that?
Posted via BlackBerry Classic04-26-15 01:48 PMLike 0 - The 'partnership' ended up being:
BlackBerry: 'Can we preload your app store and say it's available on our devices?'
Amazon: 'uhh... sure, just tell us what the devices are called so we can block every popular-name app from being installed by them.'
BlackBerry: 'what's a popular app?'
Posted via CB1004-26-15 02:07 PMLike 25 - I will never understand why these two didn't partner up more than they have. License BB10 to Amazon and integrate all of Amazons features into BB10. Amazon wouldn't have had to develop a OS and BB10 would have had a real ecosystem. Something along these lines
Posted via CB10FairlightRacing likes this.04-26-15 02:45 PMLike 1 - I will never understand why these two didn't partner up more than they have. License BB10 to Amazon and integrate all of Amazons features into BB10. Amazon wouldn't have had to develop a OS and BB10 would have had a real ecosystem. Something along these lines
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Posted via CB10JosevuN3 likes this.04-26-15 02:55 PMLike 1 - The 'partnership' ended up being:
BlackBerry: 'Can we preload your app store and say it's available on our devices?'
Amazon: 'uhh... sure, just tell us what the devices are called so we can block every popular-name app from being installed by them.'
BlackBerry: 'what's a popular app?'
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Posted via CB10FairlightRacing and KokiJuan like this.04-26-15 05:21 PMLike 2 - I will never understand why these two didn't partner up more than they have. License BB10 to Amazon and integrate all of Amazons features into BB10. Amazon wouldn't have had to develop a OS and BB10 would have had a real ecosystem. Something along these lines
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Posted via CB1004-26-15 05:22 PMLike 0 - The answer to that goes back to the fact that developers of sought out apps don't want to develop for BB10. Why then would Amazon switch to BB10? It already has a limited amount of Android apps without Google Services. Switching to BB10 would give it access to even less apps, essentially they would have the same apps what we have in BlackBerry World.
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Posted via the CrackBerry App for Android04-26-15 06:48 PMLike 3 - Amazon gets their incredibly lame app store on phones that have actually sold some devices, and BlackBerry can lie say they have access to hundreds of thousands of apps which doesn't match the reality that they are all being blocked from the device.
If it weren't for SNAP and RedlightofLove's work on it, BlackBerry 10 wouldn't be usable for me.
Posted via CB10 on Z3004-26-15 06:55 PMLike 0 - Guess some need to qualify their statements... Yes Android does run crappy on some versions of the phone... not all... client bought their passport to me to be configured.... Used Colbalt's ( thanks by the way ) installation instructions..... Installed Google Play//////installed a whole slew of apps the client wanted... had to mix it up between Google Play and Amazon store as some of the Google Play stuff can be picky... would say 95 percent installed fine... Worked like a charm... ran through Google maps ... no issue... actually worked better than the neighbours HTC phone..... I personally do not use Android on my Z30... from time to time however I like to tinker... the apps I did run had not issues... couple had a few lag issue but after a hard reset... all way fine... so yes on some models and depending on how you configure the phone Android may be a issue but with later phones not so much....04-26-15 06:59 PMLike 0
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Posted via CB10Laura Knotek and JosevuN3 like this.04-26-15 10:44 PMLike 2 - No, it is just not a dozen critical consumer apps. Banks, newspapers , airlines, governments, NPO's, etc etc the list is never ending. Amazon was not a mistake, it is just false advertising by BlackBerry. Without runtime, BlackBerry would have been forced out of the handset business by now.
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Loving my Passport!Laura Knotek likes this.04-26-15 11:55 PMLike 1 - It wasn't false advertising by BlackBerry. It's the app devs that decide which devices are allowed to download their apps. In the beginning BlackBerry devices were listed as unknown android device with the 10.3.1 update BB devices are now listed by make and model. Question is why did these devs decide to remove BlackBerry access en mass?
Loving my Passport!04-27-15 06:19 AMLike 0 - I still say the solution is to have Blackberry run a modified version of Android as their primary OS with their security feature and as OS10 skin embedded into the OS. The app issue would be solved once and for all. I know the faithful will want to burn me at the stake for even thinking this way.
But, most of my business clients are using Android and/or IOS devices with either Knox or some other form of security software and I have't heard one of them having any security issues, period. I also talking about some large companies i.e. Ford, Chrysler, GM and their global suppliers to name a few.04-27-15 06:43 AMLike 6 - I still say the solution is to have Blackberry run a modified version of Android as their primary OS with their security feature and as OS10 skin embedded into the OS. The app issue would be solved once and for all. I know the faithful will want to burn me at the stake for even thinking this way.
But, most of my business clients are using Android and/or IOS devices with either Knox or some other form of security software and I have't heard one of them having any security issues, period. I also talking about some large companies i.e. Ford, Chrysler, GM and their global suppliers to name a few.04-27-15 07:00 AMLike 0 - The answer is yes, they do use some custom apps both on the Android and IOS side and they use their devices for more then just email, phone calls and messaging.LuvULongTime likes this.04-27-15 07:05 AMLike 1
- Guess some need to qualify their statements... Yes Android does run crappy on some versions of the phone... not all... client bought their passport to me to be configured.... Used Colbalt's ( thanks by the way ) installation instructions..... Installed Google Play//////installed a whole slew of apps the client wanted... had to mix it up between Google Play and Amazon store as some of the Google Play stuff can be picky... would say 95 percent installed fine... Worked like a charm... ran through Google maps ... no issue... actually worked better than the neighbours HTC phone..... I personally do not use Android on my Z30... from time to time however I like to tinker... the apps I did run had not issues... couple had a few lag issue but after a hard reset... all way fine... so yes on some models and depending on how you configure the phone Android may be a issue but with later phones not so much....
The bottom line here and there is really no way of getting around this, for BlackBerry to succeed in the consumer market, developers need to develop for BlackBerry, period.
Posted via CB101magine likes this.04-27-15 07:12 AMLike 1 - The greater the update of BB10 the latest Android runtime is used and in consequence the better Android apps run on BlackBerry, but, they are never going to run as seamless as a native BlackBerry App runs on BlackBerry, not will the run as seamless as an android app will run on an Android device. Nor will apps containing Google services ever work on BB10 unless we get Google services. I have plenty of Android apps on my Z30 running 10.3.1. They run... hmm.. Ok. Not bad. Not great either.
The bottom line here and there is really no way of getting around this, for BlackBerry to succeed in the consumer market, developers need to develop for BlackBerry, period.
Posted via CB1004-27-15 07:21 AMLike 0 - I still say the solution is to have Blackberry run a modified version of Android as their primary OS with their security feature and as OS10 skin embedded into the OS. The app issue would be solved once and for all. I know the faithful will want to burn me at the stake for even thinking this way.
But, most of my business clients are using Android and/or IOS devices with either Knox or some other form of security software and I have't heard one of them having any security issues, period. I also talking about some large companies i.e. Ford, Chrysler, GM and their global suppliers to name a few.
Posted via CB10 on Z30DaedalusIcarusHelios likes this.04-27-15 07:35 AMLike 1
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