With the ship date of the Playbook fast approaching, the news has hit the streets that the tablet will be able to run Android apps and more:
RIM will launch two optional “app players” that provide an application run-time environment for BlackBerry Java® apps and Android v2.3 apps. These new app players will allow users to download BlackBerry Java apps and Android apps from BlackBerry App World and run them on their BlackBerry PlayBook.
You have to wonder why RIM would go this route. Do the lack confidence in their own apps? There’s about 10,000 of them out there right now. While not a huge number when compared to what’s available for Android or Apple products, it’s not small. One has to wonder if this is some sort of last ditch effort to save their tablet from being destroyed by the iPad 2. Or maybe it’s due to the fact that their earnings report didn’t exactly set the world on fire.
We’ll see on April 19th.
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Playbook To Run Android Apps… Among Others
With the ship date of the Playbook fast approaching, the news has hit the streets that the tablet will be able to run Android apps and more:
RIM will launch two optional “app players” that provide an application run-time environment for BlackBerry Java® apps and Android v2.3 apps. These new app players will allow users to download BlackBerry Java apps and Android apps from BlackBerry App World and run them on their BlackBerry PlayBook.
You have to wonder why RIM would go this route. Do the lack confidence in their own apps? There’s about 10,000 of them out there right now. While not a huge number when compared to what’s available for Android or Apple products, it’s not small. One has to wonder if this is some sort of last ditch effort to save their tablet from being destroyed by the iPad 2. Or maybe it’s due to the fact that their earnings report didn’t exactly set the world on fire.
We’ll see on April 19th.
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