With this now occurring I can see why in future BES 10 updates there will be the new activation type of 'EMM Regulated Balance', allowing total lock down of the 'work' side and partial lock down of the personal side.
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With this now occurring I can see why in future BES 10 updates there will be the new activation type of 'EMM Regulated Balance', allowing total lock down of the 'work' side and partial lock down of the personal side.
maybe giggle paid/is paying them, not likely, just a thought...
This is very exciting news but I love the way that with native apps you can restrict certain permissions which I don't believe you can do with android apps, although I think you can on android 4.3.
So, I think it is essential that if the Android apps will be available through BlackBerry world it needs to show it is an android app and what permissions it needs as I don't want to waste my time downloading apps that require every permission just for a flashlight.
I'm also a little concerned about the security of these apps as the play store seems to have little vetting of apps but Blackberry's reputation is security which is why they have an approval process and scanning of apps in the store by trend Micro.
Exciting times though.
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http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/05/res...-by-jefferies/
Do you guys believe me yet? Lol. This has been in the works for months! Just found this article 5 minutes agoAndroid App Virtualization:
The Blackberry 10 has got the support from a private company, which will allow the whole Android catalog to be ported on BB10 devices, and the user will feel that the whole catalog is native and has not been ported. The company will provide the solution that will be a link between BB10 and Android ecosystem of more than 700,000 touch enabled apps
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It's different because it will be the consumer friendly wrapped up in cotton wool as easy as using BBW way of downloading and installing Android apps rather than the technical and off putting way if side loading we have right now that many people complain about being too difficult for them.
As such the average consumer user will expect that if Android apps are presented to them as easily as they are in BBW then they should all work. But if it's just the Dalvik VM then they won't all work and that will be one bad user experience.
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This is gonna be like Samsung.
2 awesome stores, Samsung Store, and Google play..
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It would be interesting to see how market opens today.
:rotfl:
if the app gap were to close maybe people would give bb10 a chance and see how good it actually is.. and if we get the numbers we'll get more devs..
wishful thinking.
You do realize that you are posting something that is potentially bigger than any leak, any recent announcement or development. This can be the biggest single incident to ensure a turnaround for BlackBerry. I suddenly have a whole lot of hope for this Company after reading the post. Great stuff, beware the competition, BB is on the move!!!
He was basically right, Igrann and BlackGram.
Z10STL100-2/10.2.0.1803 O2 UK
Actually, I think this will be better for the BlackBerry 10 native developers in the long run. I think that native BB10 apps are still smoother than even the terrific JellyBean apps on 10.2. While Android apps are increasingly improving their UIs by bypassing the standard UI paradigms of Android with the back button or menu button at the bottoms of the screens, they still aren't as impressive as the native UIs that can be built in Cascades like BloomBerg, iHeartRadio, Neatly, Blaq, USA Today, MLB, etc. They also won't have active frames, gorgeous sharing capabilities, toast / reply capabilities, or great hub integration, or any real integration worth mentioning that BB10 apps are capable of.
The main challenge right now is to get as many consumers onto BlackBerry 10 no matter what, and having the big name Android apps like Instagram, Netflix, Vine, Candy Crush, etc. can make that happen. Once people get onto BB10 in larger numbers, it will be a much stronger case to get these big name vendors to create native app versions. Meanwhile the smaller app vendors already making great BB10 apps will have even greater audience of people to buy their apps as they can exploit more features mentioned above. I'll continue to use / buy native apps over a port anyday, but in the meantime I'll take an Android port over nothing at all.
The only one thing that I hope will happen is. A Z30 with upgraded camera. I will surely dig that and support buying another BlackBerry phone just because I always love under dog.
Also this would open up more possibility to compete with the upcoming Tizen from Samsung.
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This sounds like Handster, the company that got in trouble for repackaging Android apps without permission...
The best part is to make blackberry world split in two like world and moon - world would be native or semi native ported apps and moon will be all android apps in the google store. So you get BB APP WORLD and BB APP MOON. SO they can also check which apps are running with MOON
I also think this is a mistake, Google would never allow direct acces to their App store by a competitor.
Look at Amazon, they have their own app store with many of the same apps.
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BlackBerry are NOT members of the Open Handset Alliance; so how could they and Google came to an agreement to bypass it?
Also, there are plenty of people running leaked builds of 10.2.1.x and they're not 'whitlisted' nor are their BB10 devices bricked.
Your 'argument' is moot.
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html
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Exactly. Google wouldn't want this as it would detract from Android.
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I want to support your argument with a post I wrote a few months ago (I'm not hijacking):
http://forums.crackberry.com/blackbe...98/index2.html (my full post is #31)
The paragraphs of interest are where I stated "...I would have liked to have seen a full Android 4.x stack running inside a mobile hypervisor, such as OKL4 or Red Bend's VLX.
This would have required no "porting" work on RIM's behalf. Instead, an actual copy of Android, with a complete Linux kernel, could be run as a "Guest" OS within QNX. But it was not to be..."
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google play would not fix the app problem.. alot of android ports dont even work on bb10.. take line for example.. it works but when i choose to video call, i get an error saying no camera is detected on my phone.. how would downloading such apps from google play instead of sideloading them fix this issue?
devs need to dedicate time to making sure android ports work with all aspects of the phone and all parts of the app are compatible with the device, for example not getting such an error above.. thats why android ports that appear bb world r there.. cos theyve been tested and work well..such as skype.. having the whole android app ecosystem on bb with all apps working is absolutely impossible.. and so to this post i say.. your friends are wrong..
Installing an Android app directly from the Play Store (if it ever became available to BB10) onto your BlackBerry and running it is not sideloading. Sideloading is taking an app and loading it from an external source.
Installing carefully selected Android ports from BlackBerry World is also not sideloading.
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I heard that Google paid developer in cash for native program development. Sounds like a workable idea.
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When you friend's dad was developing at QNX, the Play Store did not exist. So he couldn't have done what you claim.
He could however, have used a virtualisation layer or hypervisor to run another OS from within QNX.
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It is Handster.
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Yeah that pisek guy commented on this before.
theres another thread where the guy is working on getting google apps to use google framwork services by decompiling the apks and stuff. never tried it but either way it looks like we might get usable google apps :D
CJH_: when i saw your first post in this forum I was wondering how I could ever get over 11,000 post count on the forums. your following 7 posts answered my question