Last I read was that Cascades had progressed from endless snazzy video production and produced an actual "fer real" API which was in some kind of closed beta. So, any word on where Cascades is at the mo' ?
Has the Cascades API been released to any Devs yet?
Any word on when Cascades will appear in an NDK update for more general release?
Some devs may have it, but I dont think they are going to say anything due to NDAs. I have a strong feeling in about 3 weeks at BBW a lot of things will become more clear.
I recall reading somewhere that cascades will not be released during bbworld, although I'm not very sure if I read something like that at all. Does anyone else happen to have read such a report?
its still hard to believe that its taken RIM this long to get Cascades integrated into the native NDK. i understand it mightn ot be a easy task, but when RIM has owned TAT for whats approaching a year and a half, they are going to have to start walking the walk.
I personally dont want to see anymore videos teasing end users of what will come until it is actually released
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code writing takes time. Imagine, they acquired QNX 2y ago, and they wrote a tablet OS from it in 1y, and completed it 10mo later. This is very short IMO.
Problem is that RIM is playing catch-up, so everything seems like an eternity. It is generally accepted that on the consumer innovation front, innovation at RIM came to a near complete standstill. Besides PB, every piece of hardware from RIM after the Bold9000 was late to market, with same CPU clock speed one generation to the next. RIM's investment in manufacturing is seen as a mistake. Outsource to the cheapest OEM in asia, or start joint ventures there. On the software side, touch made JAVAOS seem very dated, consumer app support made it look worse, and Storm1/2 tainted the Blackberry name for a while. Now, fragmenting between QNX and Java means not everyone is pushing in the same direction. BBMusic is not earth-shattering, and BBM + push email are long in the tooth. Besides security, BIS truncates emails, is not great for streaming and its web interface is frozen in time. Cloud is inexistent, etc....
now that OS7.1 is out, all muscle will be realigned with QNX. Give them a year (a long time) and you will see where things are going. But until then, everything seems to take an eternity - the joy of transitions.
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code writing takes time. Imagine, they acquired QNX 2y ago, and they wrote a tablet OS from it in 1y, and completed it 10mo later. This is very short IMO.
Thank you, some people think it's a think you can do this in a matter of hours (I may be exaggerating), or maybe weeks. Making a very simple application can take up to multiple hours... Making a Operating System sometimes takes years! I'm quoting Alec Saunders "...Updates are like babies -- premature is bad.", the same goes for O.S's anybody remember Vista?
code writing takes time. Imagine, they acquired QNX 2y ago, and they wrote a tablet OS from it in 1y, and completed it 10mo later. This is very short IMO.
Problem is that RIM is playing catch-up, so everything seems like an eternity. It is generally accepted that on the consumer innovation front, innovation at RIM came to a near complete standstill. Besides PB, every piece of hardware from RIM after the Bold9000 was late to market, with same CPU clock speed one generation to the next. RIM's investment in manufacturing is seen as a mistake. Outsource to the cheapest OEM in asia, or start joint ventures there. On the software side, touch made JAVAOS seem very dated, consumer app support made it look worse, and Storm1/2 tainted the Blackberry name for a while. Now, fragmenting between QNX and Java means not everyone is pushing in the same direction. BBMusic is not earth-shattering, and BBM + push email are long in the tooth. Besides security, BIS truncates emails, is not great for streaming and its web interface is frozen in time. Cloud is inexistent, etc....
now that OS7.1 is out, all muscle will be realigned with QNX. Give them a year (a long time) and you will see where things are going. But until then, everything seems to take an eternity - the joy of transitions.
Totally agree with the assessment. RIM has to overhaul a ton of stuff and we are just starting to see what they are doing. Getting the Tablet OS launched within a year of the QNX purchase is actually pretty fast. We can all sit here and lament why RIM didn't do this earlier, but it is what it is, and we'll see if this transition will work out. At least it's faster than Palm's transition from Palm OS to webOS...
Yes all delays are technically very understandable, but the problem is the playbook should have been sold only when the OS was mature and had basic functions. Which probably means it should have been sold... at the end of 2012, when BB10 comes out.
After all outside of Crackberry forums, in the wide outer world, it is common practice to sell customers finished products in exchange of their money.
Yes all delays are technically very understandable, but the problem is the playbook should have been sold only when the OS was mature and had basic functions. Which probably means it should have been sold... at the end of 2012, when BB10 comes out.
After all outside of Crackberry forums, in the wide outer world, it is common practice to sell customers finished products in exchange of their money.
But on the other hand, all the other Android tablets --- which all had native email from the start --- were duds as well.
