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I guess background services would be too much to ask of RIM. But I am pretty sure you can explain why we still don't have the mere basics such as bookmark management. And that's after probably 1.5 years of development.05-26-12 06:33 PMLike 0 - Well, I am pretty sure you've got a more plausable exlanation as to why there are still no background services in sight.
I guess background services would be too much to ask of RIM. But I am pretty sure you can explain why we still don't have the mere basics such as bookmark management. And that's after probably 1.5 years of development.
RIM's roadmap seems to make sense given that Tablet OS 1.x needed to be rushed to market. They needed to include apps with the OS on initial launch, but at the time, the Adobe Air environment was the only one mature enough to deliver running apps on 1.x.
Therefore, the core of 'native' apps for 1.x was either Adobe Air apps thrown together to be able to have a picture gallery, music player, podcast app, etc available at launch. The browser itself is an Air app wrapping around the native browser control. It is the Air app that handles all of the funcitonality that people complain about (tabs, bookmarks, etc). The other icons (I don't even refer to them as apps) are the browser launch icons for Hotmail, AOL mail, Twitter, etc.
The Cascades API is currently in beta and is looking pretty sweet. But aside from completing the rework of the OS, they are simultaneously having to rewrite the older (and inefficient) Air Apps with the Cascades framework from scratch. This is very time consuming.
I think everyone here agrees that it's as important that the OS that represents a convergence of the initial Tablet OS, Cascades UI, other OS enhancements/fixes, and the rewrite of apps is not only delivered in a timely basis, but also that it all work correctly at launch.
I read many threads that basically ask, "But how difficult is it really to implement [fill in blank]". If you consider the complexity of the envionment, then the answer to that question is different than many would expect.
Having watched the evolution of Tablet OS from the early initial developer betas to what it is now is pretty amazing to me. For anyone to suggest that RIM 'sucks' at software means that they are not considering the entire software development picture.
As long as they are on track to deliver BB10 on schedule (the only real time commitment that RIM has made so far), I don't care so much about the intermediate releases. I'd rather have these upgrades when they're done and work. Given that all of the blog sites have reviewed the developer alpha device as if it's a releasable phone, RIM can't afford to release anything that's broken or not functioning as designed.05-27-12 12:42 PMLike 4 - Obviously you are confusing RIM-time with the Earth solar calendar time keeping methodology. For example, when I tell my dog that we will be going to the park "soon" I mean within 1 hour. When RIM announces that something is coming "soon" they mean at least 6 months. It is all relative like Einstein's theory.FF22 likes this.05-27-12 12:51 PMLike 1
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My guess is that it will be released tomorrow or on Tuesday to coincide with the start of the BB Jam tour.
@BackDaws: do everybody a favour and go troll somewhere else.05-27-12 01:16 PMLike 2 -
I just hope it doesn't take too long, and that they do it right. Nothing would be worse than to have another release like the original PB did.
I think they can do it.kennyliu likes this.05-27-12 03:08 PMLike 1
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