[mphillips828]

Hey all...so I was looking around and found this on the BlackBerry Developer site.

I have added a screen shot from the website and the only reason this caught my attention was that the releases set for December (which are on-time) are all set as Gold. I recently read an article I believe by Umi, that once beta reaches Gold status, the release will be very soon after...how soon after I do not know, but I would say no longer than a month really...

[anon(2757538)]

This is developer software. Not BB10 phone software

[mphillips828]

Wouldn't Beta Gold mean its ready for primetime though?

[Shao128]

RIM has been pretty forthcoming with information about the SDK roadmap, I believe that flight board was released in September. The SDKs going gold just means they have implemented all the features and APIs for developers that they wanted to for BB 10.0. The SDKs need to be final well in advance of a release so that developers have time to complete their apps because every release Beta 1, 2, 3 things have changed enough that many apps devs were working on required changes. That being said, it is a good sign that is on time, and shows RIM at least has a clear sense of release time lines for devices (even if they aren't publicly telling us).