OS7 and its variants are here to stay.
- I was just listening to n4bb podcast episode 6 and there's a rim dude confirming what I've been saying all along.
OS7 and its variants are here to stay, it's a successful platform, and it will continue to serve those that love it, those that care about a low monthly bill and those that love the qwerty keyboard.
OS7 is not a dead platform or even a dead end, it will simply continue on as low/mid end offering.
As the guy put it, Rim has 2 platforms for developers to develop on.06-25-12 03:56 AMLike 0 - i prefer OS7.1 for simplicity and being a matured OS, relatively stable (though my 9900 died from time to time..).
RIM should have released the playbook with OS7 first, then upgraded to QNX.
i agree that OS7 will live at least until 2013-4 for low-to-mid end line up. god knows if BB10 messed up - we can always come back to tried and true 9900s/9810s. Heck i could even buy a PD 998106-25-12 05:22 AMLike 0 - When you look at some of the countries that BB7 sells the best in, it may be a good idea to continue supporting them for quite a while if feasable. Many of the poorer countries may not be able to afford the newer platform.06-25-12 07:30 AMLike 0
- I don't think that would work. The hardware for the PlayBook is built to work seamlessly with QNX. If they made a BBOS 7 tablet, the hardware would more than likely have to be different from what we have on the PB today. Just as how the OS7 phones will not be able to run BB10, a BBOS 7 would not be able to run a QNX OS.06-25-12 07:40 AMLike 0
- I don't think that would work. The hardware for the PlayBook is built to work seamlessly with QNX. If they made a BBOS 7 tablet, the hardware would more than likely have to be different from what we have on the PB today. Just as how the OS7 phones will not be able to run BB10, a BBOS 7 would not be able to run a QNX OS.06-25-12 07:51 AMLike 0
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Anyway, there's a RIM guy confirming it on the podcast, do you not believe him? Lol06-25-12 11:41 AMLike 0 - I'm not sure how you got that from what I said. I agree that OS7 will continue for a while, in the Low End markets he implied. I'm going to assume you don't know the name of this guy or have a transcript?06-25-12 11:43 AMLike 0
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For those who do not care about apps, they might be fine with that. For those that do care about apps, they will move to BB10. BB10 devices wont stay at premium prices forever.kozmo68 likes this.06-25-12 12:56 PMLike 1 -
Yeah but nail guns are way faster and funnier to use.
Dang did I Just supported Android through a hammer analogy.Last edited by Foreverup; 06-25-12 at 04:41 PM.
06-25-12 02:33 PMLike 0 - better keep OS7.1 alive even upgraded to OS8 or something.
look at what happens at Nokia..put all their bid on WP (CEO is Microsoft man) and see what happened now. Nokia ditch meego, throw symbian out, pay andersen(can't remember the name?) to continue symbian, and then now left at the mercy of Microsoft. Nokia swallow the bait and now the hook start pulling..now way it could run away.
rim's position is not that bad, it's just that in this age people won't wait very long to cheer up when someone's going slow or down. in the 90s communication and media are not llike now, so some company can paddle along and play ignorant or arrogant. not today. not will all the tech blogs and petty investors craving for attention.06-25-12 09:05 PMLike 0 - Not only that when mass adoption in the North American and Western European market happens and the market share of the older OS's begins to dwindle, what exactly will be the point for devs to keep(wait scratch that, start!!!) developing for OS 7?06-25-12 09:44 PMLike 0
- I dont think those that will stay on the BBOS will be concerned much with new apps being developed as long as the existing ones will be maintained.06-26-12 02:04 AMLike 0
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PS aps that are in Appworld already, and there's plenty of them, don't cost the developers anything. Also as we all know, BBOS developers make more money then Android and IOS developers already.06-26-12 02:29 AMLike 0 - And put all their egs in one basket? Force happy existing users to upgrade to a new unfamiliar platform? Thankfully RIM doesn't agree with you.
PS aps that are in Appworld already, and there's plenty of them, don't cost the developers anything. Also as we all know, BBOS developers make more money then Android and IOS developers already.
RIM's always spread out too thin cause of the 864 types of phones they have out there, and they're too afraid to realize that's whats put them in this position, too many phones + lack of apps + lack of devs because of too many phones + outdated phones = why RIm is laughed at today.
They're like pack rats with OCD, they can't get rid of junk. And will continue to sink till they get someone in charge that isn't afraid of change, because things can't get much worse...06-26-12 02:44 AMLike 0 - Also, that's the typical line any business puts out there before a major change is about to happen, wouldn't want to halt sales completely. Of course they're going to support it, knowing all along it's just going to die soon anyway hoping people still fall for it and keep sales decent until the change happens lol. It's business 101. So don't be shocked when the phrase, after careful consideration so and so will still be supported but with no updates in the future.06-26-12 02:52 AMLike 0
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