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FeedR or Pulse03-24-11 07:03 PMLike 0 - Awesome News!!! I can not wait for my Playbook to arrive and then this summer I will be able to put Android Apps on my Playbook. Thank you RIM for making such a great product. Call me a Blackberry Fanboy but I will never be called an Apple Fanboy, I am too smart for that!!!
I hope the Playbook lives up to the hype it's been generating.03-24-11 08:04 PMLike 0 - I didn't think they'd really do it and I still don't see how they could have in such a short amount of time.
My guess is that like the Air SDK, this was something QNX already had in the works when RIM bought them.
I'm still skeptical about the viability of this. A mishmash of Android UI along with all the other SDKs sounds like a frankenberry.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-24-11 08:30 PMLike 0 - You know what's kind of pathetic?
http://forums.crackberry.com/f133/finally-did-418520/
that was your post more than a year ago.
cling much?03-24-11 09:55 PMLike 0 - netflix, like hulu, can choose if they want to allow on mobile platforms. I would think in time both will work on the PB or any other tablet.03-24-11 10:40 PMLike 0
- This is great news and it definitely enhances the appeal of PlayBook significantly. I would imagine the implementation to be similar to what Microsoft did for Windows 7 with XP Mode, or what Classic does for WebOS. Performance of android apps running inside a virtual machine will never beat that of native apps written using native C/C++ API of PlayBook. Also apps that rely on particular very specific Android OS features will not be able to run in the vm without extra porting effort. Some features of PlayBook may also not be accessible for an app inside a vm. So, there is still a lot of incentives to write native apps for PlayBook.03-24-11 11:39 PMLike 0
- What a bunch of hypocrites some of you people are, just a little while ago you couldn't berate Apple and Android enough about their apps and how their was no need for them, now listen to the same people, salivating like Pavlov's dog at the prospects. What a sorry group of individuals. Now, I said it and you can like it or not.03-25-11 01:07 AMLike 3
- So running Android apps on a BB QNX OS instead of running Android apps on an Android OS? Market positioning fail RIM. You shouldn't even have jumped on the tablet bandwagon in the first place. Your incessant obsession with copying whatever Apple did led to your market decline, you knew that right?
Anyway, is it just porting or virtualization?
But nonetheless, kudos to RIM for bending over. It may not be the best move ever, but it may be one just to save it from being DOA.
I'll be getting a Tab or an IPad 2 by the way.
p/s the Apple and Android camp must be laughing at us BB fanboys now.03-25-11 04:13 AMLike 0 - What a bunch of hypocrites some of you people are, just a little while ago you couldn't berate Apple and Android enough about their apps and how their was no need for them, now listen to the same people, salivating like Pavlov's dog at the prospects. What a sorry group of individuals. Now, I said it and you can like it or not.03-25-11 05:15 AMLike 0
- What a bunch of hypocrites some of you people are, just a little while ago you couldn't berate Apple and Android enough about their apps and how their was no need for them, now listen to the same people, salivating like Pavlov's dog at the prospects. What a sorry group of individuals. Now, I said it and you can like it or not.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-25-11 05:20 AMLike 0 - This is as good for Android as it is for BB. The Android OS is barely a beta, and is far too buggy for the general public. Almost everyone I know with an Android wants to throw it against a wall, except for the Linux nerds that just hack it into stability. Samsung fraks up almost every Android phone they release, and even HTC can't get around what a battery/RAM-hog that the Android OS is compared to BB, iOS or webOS. A stable OS underneath the Android marketplace is what Google has been lacking to make their devices consumer friendly, as opposed to cheap (often free) iPhone knock-offs.
I'm still not 100% certain of the Playbook even with this news. After the Storm 1, I wait for the 2nd new device before committing to a new BB. Let other people with more $$ than me to toss around on a new toy "test" this model, and then I may jump on board when they use this for phones next year and my contract runs out.
Disclosure: I own an iPad 2 *and* a Blackberry Curve. Don't regret it. Love them both to death.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-25-11 06:48 AMLike 0 -
I'm guessing there won't be any DRM issues with the PlayBook so maybe a netflix app will come rather quickly03-25-11 07:15 AMLike 0 - What a bunch of hypocrites some of you people are, just a little while ago you couldn't berate Apple and Android enough about their apps and how their was no need for them, now listen to the same people, salivating like Pavlov's dog at the prospects. What a sorry group of individuals. Now, I said it and you can like it or not.03-25-11 09:33 AMLike 0
- Agreed 1000%. I hate, yes HATE my f'ing Storm. It acts up nearly daily with reboots, and browsing is slow and painful. Just got another truncated email this morning--DAMN, RIM, what's with that?? So what if BB's use less data, if part of that benefit is that I can't read an entire email without having to go to the TROUBLE of opening a webpage to read a truncated email? Stupid.03-25-11 09:36 AMLike 0
- I believe he was referring to how everyone and their mothers on crackberry was bashing apple/android for being nothing but a "toy" and that their app markets were filled with nothing but useless kids apps.
"nothing but fart apps"
"no productivity apps"
yatta yatta yatta...
BUT, now you actually got the same android app market on the playbook and everyone is thrilled about it.
No one cared about games before, but all of a sudden first thing everyones gonna do when they get the playbook is play tetris, need for speed and go to adroid app market.
:/03-25-11 09:52 AMLike 0 - I believe he was referring to how everyone and their mothers on crackberry was bashing apple/android for being nothing but a "toy" and that their app markets were filled with nothing but useless kids apps.
"nothing but fart apps"
"no productivity apps"
yatta yatta yatta...
BUT, now you actually got the same android app market on the playbook and everyone is thrilled about it.
No one cared about games before, but all of a sudden first thing everyones gonna do when they get the playbook is play tetris, need for speed and go to adroid app market.
:/
I, for one won't get a PB if I can't get certain apps for it. After all, hardware is just the means to an end (or should be).03-25-11 09:59 AMLike 0 - I believe he was referring to how everyone and their mothers on crackberry was bashing apple/android for being nothing but a "toy" and that their app markets were filled with nothing but useless kids apps.
"nothing but fart apps"
"no productivity apps"
yatta yatta yatta...
BUT, now you actually got the same android app market on the playbook and everyone is thrilled about it.
No one cared about games before, but all of a sudden first thing everyones gonna do when they get the playbook is play tetris, need for speed and go to adroid app market.
:/03-25-11 10:13 AMLike 0 -
- I believe he was referring to how everyone and their mothers on crackberry was bashing apple/android for being nothing but a "toy" and that their app markets were filled with nothing but useless kids apps.
"nothing but fart apps"
"no productivity apps"
yatta yatta yatta...
BUT, now you actually got the same android app market on the playbook and everyone is thrilled about it.
No one cared about games before, but all of a sudden first thing everyones gonna do when they get the playbook is play tetris, need for speed and go to adroid app market.
:/03-25-11 10:27 AMLike 0
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