- Is this devcon day 1 and all we are offered by rim? The elephant in the room is screaming loud and a release date isnt discussed or reported to have been announced?
Edit: Thorsten's opening speech. Generalities, carefully dodging details and info: Opening speech devconLast edited by kb5zht; 02-07-12 at 05:25 AM.
Taipuma likes this.02-07-12 05:18 AMLike 1 - CrackBerry KevinCrackBerry FounderDude. We never came into BlackBerry DevCon Europe Expecting announcements.
Mobile World Congress is at the end of this month. In February. That's your big show with more of a consumer market and a bigger global audience/media presence. That's where/when I full expect to see PlayBook OS 2.0 drop. Doing it at DevCon vs. MWC wouldn't make sense.
After that, BlackBerry World is coming up in May. That's where I expect we'll see BlackBerry 10 get a bigger unveiling.
This is a developer event, geared to getting devs putting apps on the platform. Judging by attendance, the fact that sessions are all booked up, etc., I think the show is delivering what the attendees came for.02-07-12 05:24 AMLike 9 - Yea okay I got the guy's shirt wrong by a word. Syntax mistake. Boy you nailed me there.
And Kevin , fine, whatever, there is just a huge number of people out here dying to be told something. Thats what I am saying and many were hoping it would be devcon Europe. Not an OS drop but some info. Even the crackberry blogs suggested a feb 17 drop date so MWC Would be a bit late for that.
Note: Apparently you thought I was expecting a drop. I never hinted at that or suggested it. I was looking for some announcements regarding a drop date and shedding more light on the subject instead of leaving the ambiguous "February" time frame since we are in February now.Last edited by kb5zht; 02-07-12 at 05:38 AM.
02-07-12 05:31 AMLike 0 - Dude. We never came into BlackBerry DevCon Europe Expecting announcements.
Mobile World Congress is at the end of this month. In February. That's your big show with more of a consumer market and a bigger global audience/media presence. That's where/when I full expect to see PlayBook OS 2.0 drop. Doing it at DevCon vs. MWC wouldn't make sense.
After that, BlackBerry World is coming up in May. That's where I expect we'll see BlackBerry 10 get a bigger unveiling.
This is a developer event, geared to getting devs putting apps on the platform. Judging by attendance, the fact that sessions are all booked up, etc., I think the show is delivering what the attendees came for.02-07-12 05:32 AMLike 0 -
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- Yea okay I got the guy's shirt wrong by a word. Syntax mistake. Boy you nailed me there.
And Kevin , fine, whatever, there is just a huge number of people out here dying to be told something. Thats what I am saying and many were hoping it would be devcon Europe. Not an OS drop but some info. Even the crackberry blogs suggested a feb 17 drop date so MWC Would be a bit late for that.
Note: Apparently you thought I was expecting a drop. I never hinted at that or suggested it. I was looking for some announcements regarding a drop date and shedding more light on the subject instead of leaving the ambiguous "February" time frame since we are in February now.ralfyguy likes this.02-07-12 05:53 AMLike 1 - Almost forgot about that.Yes they did mention Facebook and the contacts app looks great.Its not the fastest but there is a whole lot going on with it and i think its worth the extra 2 seconds to 3 of load time.02-07-12 05:57 AMLike 0
- I did hear him say "later this month" today.IDK but later this month sounds closer than by the end of this month or Im just being overly optimistic as usual.02-07-12 05:59 AMLike 0
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Two things i learned from devcon.
1.Os2 is not coming this week and probably not next week either.
2.Thorsten is pronounced Torsten.
Oh... And that the guy's shirt said be bold, not stay bold. Real big that one. 8-|Last edited by kb5zht; 02-07-12 at 06:08 AM.
02-07-12 06:04 AMLike 0 - Yes and Kevin was quick to use MWC as a suggested dropping point, but I would like to point out one of his own site bloggers suggested a Feb 17 date via rumors.... Pointing out that MWC is as much pure speculation as Feb 17, 21st, 23rd, MWC or any other date.
Saddly, that's about all I gleened from it.
Oh... And that the guy's shirt said be bold, not stay bold. Real big that one. 8-|02-07-12 06:15 AMLike 0 - I watched the Keynote from Thorsten Heins.
There was a point where a picture was taken on a 9900 and then an attempt was made to open that picture up on a bridged Playbook. It didn't work and they couldn't do it. Heins just said "I need to move on . . . "
That made me feel really nervous about whether 2.0 is really done and embarrassed for everyone involved.02-07-12 06:16 AMLike 0 - Did the Playbooks that were distributed to attendees have a 2.0 build on them? If so, was it a newer build than what we've seen?
Also, were the attendees given a Cascades SDK? Any word on when the rest of us will see that?Last edited by app_Developer; 02-07-12 at 06:36 AM.
02-07-12 06:19 AMLike 0 - Dude. We never came into BlackBerry DevCon Europe Expecting announcements ...
This is a developer event, geared to getting devs putting apps on the platform. Judging by attendance, the fact that sessions are all booked up, etc., I think the show is delivering what the attendees came for.
Go Jets Go!02-07-12 06:31 AMLike 0 - Is this devcon day 1 and all we are offered by rim? The elephant in the room is screaming loud and a release date isnt discussed or reported to have been announced?
Edit: Thorsten's opening speech. Generalities, carefully dodging details and info: Opening speech devcon
keep calm and be bold | Tumblr02-07-12 07:52 AMLike 0 - I watched the Keynote from Thorsten Heins.
There was a point where a picture was taken on a 9900 and then an attempt was made to open that picture up on a bridged Playbook. It didn't work and they couldn't do it. Heins just said "I need to move on . . . "
That made me feel really nervous about whether 2.0 is really done and embarrassed for everyone involved.02-07-12 08:12 AMLike 0 - I was pretty dissapointed by the whole opening. It was most amusing listening to Thorsten talking about how easy and thoughtless the whole UI was as the other VP struggled to get a picture taken on the BB to show up on the PB.
Was there anything new there though? Cascades and Qt that seemed to be the big developer parts of the talk have both been announced before. The rest of the thrust was on things like telling developers how much money they were making and felt like a bit of a triage to try and make sure that developers kept with RIM rather than bringing more into the fold.
The progress is in the right direction but I just get the feeling that the competition is already there or moving faster. RIM desperately need to speed up their execution.02-07-12 08:43 AMLike 0 - I was pretty dissapointed by the whole opening. It was most amusing listening to Thorsten talking about how easy and thoughtless the whole UI was as the other VP struggled to get a picture taken on the BB to show up on the PB.
Was there anything new there though? Cascades and Qt that seemed to be the big developer parts of the talk have both been announced before. The rest of the thrust was on things like telling developers how much money they were making and felt like a bit of a triage to try and make sure that developers kept with RIM rather than bringing more into the fold.
The progress is in the right direction but I just get the feeling that the competition is already there or moving faster. RIM desperately need to speed up their execution.
I did dig enough to come up with a positive side to this basically newsless event... and that is that Thorsten is a fresh face and at least a pleasant change from the empty, mindless waste of oxygen posed by the speeches from Dumb and Dumber. Perhaps that is a thing of the past or will be at less frequent intervals now.02-07-12 08:54 AMLike 0 - Well with week #1 of February in the can we still have 3 full weeks left and I am hoping that OS 2 is this close --> <-- to a final product and all they are doing now is polishing it until an opportune time to announce or release it. I am not sure there is enough historical examples of a huge release right at a convention to warrant relying too much on it but we can hold out hope I guess.
I did dig enough to come up with a positive side to this basically newsless event... and that is that Thorsten is a fresh face and at least a pleasant change from the empty, mindless waste of oxygen posed by the speeches from Dumb and Dumber. Perhaps that is a thing of the past or will be at less frequent intervals now.
The optimist in me says that they'll announce more at MWC but the realist says this is it and that BB10 phones in 2012 is pushing it.02-07-12 09:02 AMLike 0
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