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zten App compatibility? You mean android running on other platforms? Because surely bb10 app development will come to a stall.
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I didn't mean Android specifically, but if it's going to happen then market forces will dictate that the most widespread and open platform out there will become the defacto standard.
The Dalvik VM could run on any just about any OS. It won't just be BB10 using it this year, was it Sailfish or the Mozilla phone that is also going down that route for extra app compatibility?
But I agree it can only have a negative effect on native BB10 development if it gets any easier to download Android apps such as BlackBerry bundling 3rd party app store apps like 1Mobile with the OS, that would kill BB World off!
That's why they aren't doing any bundling so far and haven't officially announced any increased Android app compatibility with 10.2.1 so that those who are savvy enough to be in the know can go and get their apps, but those who aren't can continue to feed the native developer community through BB World.
I think the Dalvik VM was something of a contingency plan for BB10. If sales turned out to be poor and the developer community didn't to grow to a certain size and include the key 'big name' apps that consumers want then Plan B was to unleash the Android VM beast in 2014 and see what happens. We are there now, so let's see what happens.
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