pu-leeze DON't do it Forrest you just KNOW it's gonnah happen... :D:D:D
pu-leeze DON't do it Forrest you just KNOW it's gonnah happen... :D:D:D
Thanks for the post, OP. I really hope that your predictions will come into fruition soon. It's hard to see that such a great platform is suffering from the vicious cycle created by low demand and developer apathy.
Anyway, since you obviously know about developing,
1) do you know how the Cascades framework compares in resource intensiveness and stability to Air and WebWorks?
2) can we expect background services with the release of the Cascades framework?
Thanks.
Yeah no problem, hope you enjoyed it.
To answer your questions, the ability of the NDK to handle multithreading and hardware acceleration makes it less resource intensive than the AIR runtime, but it all depends on what you're doing with your app. We'll have to see if RIM decides to use Stage3D in the AIR runtime in the future which, but either way, you'll always have that extra level of the runtime when you use AIR, so it will always bog the OS down. I'm not really an HTML5 guy, but I think there's a few tricks you have to pull to get hw acceleration working smoothly with transform3d and stuff, whereas with Cascades it would all be automatic, so again Cascades should ultimately be easier for devs to increase stability.
I'm pretty sure background services will be worked into the BB10 SDKs in some fashion. The new messages apps already have them so I don't see why those APIs wouldn't be available to devs. There's a lot of working going on to more or less eliminate or restructure the OPEN/CLOSED paradigm of apps we have now. From what I understand they're calling this 'BlackBerry Flow', and more information should be available at BlackBerry World/BB10 Jam.
crazy thing is not so long ago RIM was just making pagers.
Thats what i mean. How long will it take from 'HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED' until 'HERE IS OUR APP IN APP WORLD'
lol
This has been a very interesting thread. Thanks, OP. I've never known what goes into building an app, so this has been somewhat enlightening. Wish we would see more informative posts like this on the site. Keep up the good work!
I hope you are right. RIM's slow implementation has worn a lot of patience thin. A year after release and we are still being told to be patient, it is coming, it will be awesome, etc.
There was a poor selection of apps at launch - but then it was all going to be wonderful with 2.0 and it was going to be so easy for Android apps to be ported over. Still waiting.
I'm sorry - but as much as I love my BB 9900 and every BB I've owned before that, the Playbook just doesn't have the apps to match the iPad and Android. Even the main apps available on the BB handsets aren't available on the PB - why wouldn't RIM even make the apps they develop for the handsets available on the PB? I'm not talking about 100 fart apps - but the basics. It's always coming soon...
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I hope they will have Chinese IME
Yeah - that's pretty crazy :rolleyes:
2003 RIM released the first Smartphone. 9 years is a long time in this market.
Thank you so much for this post biggulpseh, I actually learned quite a few things I always wondered about but never knew. For example, I've never liked the appearance of adobe air apps, but never knew why so many PB apps are written with it until now. This news is almost too good. Too good because now I'm going to be very impatient for all of this to unfold into noticeable changes ;)
You gave me something cool to look forward to though.
im not going to lie but to this post really did make me feel alot better and anxious for may to see if they go further on this cascades/tat thing, but you my friend just eased a bit of the frustration i have been having with the playbook and the app selection, thanks for posting
If RIM cannot deliver, then you will see more that kind posts,so take care,my friend:)
Yeah, but it was a two way pager with email and about the same time Apple introduced the iMac and their Apple Online Store, rest is history as they say.
From a semantic standpoint, yes. but the poster probably just meant there was less vitriol than usual about apps or the lack thereof.
Indeed - that is the reality of the situation. This Cascades magic should have happened 18 months ago... Oh wait 2.0 was going to fix the app issue...
i hope all this is true... i look forward to this :)
http://m.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/rim-confirms-bb10-is-coming-to-blackberry-playbook-1071018
"We've said publicly a number of times that our first BB10 handset will be available towards the end of 2012, and that's still firmly the case," Rob Orr, RIM's VP of product management told us.
"At some point after the launch we'll bring BB10 to our PlayBooks, yes."
OK I'm a little confused now. If they've been working on and knew about this cascades stuff since MWC 2011, how and why did the idea of an Android emulator come into the picture? I'm not posting a statement Btw, I'm genuinely curious.
RIM did not own TAT (the makers of Cascades) 18 months ago.
Long winded justifications for a lack of apps, laced with some rose colored glasses optimism, doesn't change the fact that the apps situation is just about at the same level as that for the TouchPad which is a cancelled product. No one should need to "be patient" and wait for a business to deliver on its advertising for a product that has been out for over a year. RIM is not a troubled friend or family member about whom one needs to show kindness or patience. It is a business that shipped a flawed product out of the gate lacking basic features of the cheapest android tablets, and has not yet met some pretty minimal thresholds for app coverage. If RIM really took the "if you build it they will come" approach, meaning they had not locked up key developers from the start, they are owed absolutely no patience from any paying customer. BTW, if anyone really thinks that Adobe is working on a new Playbook version of the Acrobat Reader, they need to wake up because it is just a dream. Adobe put the absolute minimum amount of effort into the Playbook Acrobat Reader, as they do for almost very platform whether successful or unsuccessful. Again, even the TouchPad version is more complete, and has even been updated a couple times.
I�m in Mexico, I my self came back from Iphone to BB and if all this is true of course I can wait for all the changes to come!!! By the way I love my 9900, yeah!!
All I can say is I'll believe it when I see it.
This pun is getting REAL stale! ;)