Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
whatsapp will come over. their biggest strength is they are cross platform.
if they start denying platforms they weaken only themselves.
they will come over once bb10 has enough people on. they probably doubt it will many ppl to begin with.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Does that also effectively mean WP8 devs are mercenaries whereas devs that have chosen to develop an app for RIM (out of their portfolios) are doing it out of believe that they can monetize on BlackBerry10 platform then?
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
So they want the free money program? I think RIM already offers it.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
NFLPLAYBOOK What makes you think it's Apple and not Google? That would seem more reasonable.
In the case of Whats App it has nothing to do with anybody. RIM has done everything it can to keep it off of BB phones. They've continually blocked it so why would they want to build an app that will most likely not make it.
Yes You're quite right, it could be either.
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Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
wylderubicon so, what you are saying is that whatsapp, which claim to fame is a multi platform messaging tool is getting paid off by apple, so that BB users can get pissed and ditch their blackberries and get an Iphone so that they can start using imessage which is extremely popular and ditch whatsapp all together?
here is my theory. I think apple paid netflix to pay skype to pay google to pay whatsapp so that they made sure RIM gets screwed. yeah that's it. Its either that, or maybe the unknown certainty of BB10 outside of these forums has developers focusing on other things? BB will finally get a phone that can compete with the others. Be happy. think positive. if its successful, they will come.
Still follows the same fundamentals.
Maybe You're right, it aint the good days no more
people are trying to destroy competition, not to outplay them.
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Re: Interesting Theory I Thought Of About Why Developers Aren't Supporting BB10 (whatsapp)
Originally Posted by
omniusovermind I've always leaned towards the old silly riddle "which came first, the chicken or the egg" as what's happening with RIM and MS apps because it's a catch-22. You have developers hesitant to make apps for a new kid on the block because the userbase isn't as high as iPhone/Android, but yet the new OS needs a good app selection to succeed. You can see how this can be a no-win situation unless you can find a way to coerce those developers to take that risk. On a side note I wasn't a big fan of adding the Android VM to Blackberries because now that it's been around a while we haven't seen any evidence that it's encouraged more native development, and it also didn't bring many quality Android converted apps on board either. A boatload of side-loaded ones yes, but that had no positive effect on the App World.
I agree, I haven't seen a big increase in quality andrid apps that have been ported over to app world.
but they PlayBook would be a paper weight if we could not side-load Android Apps. Too bad so many of them don't always work
seems like the big push to have apps ported over by giving away PlayBooks last year only lead to a bunch of Book Apps (should not even be allowed) andRSS Feed Apps or Bookmark Apps.