Finally, the strong rumors about Android Apps on BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC has been officially confirmed. Research In Motion (RIM) has released the official confirmation that BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC will be able to run any Android Applications. Beside the Android Apps, BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC also supports BlackBerry Java based applications which available on BlackBerry App World.
It means that BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC has around 225 thousands apps available (200 thousands Android Apps plus 25 thousands BlackBerry Java Apps). It seems that RIM play the applications numbers as strategy to attract people to buy the BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC. This strategy is possible since RIM install the built-in special player (or special run-time environment) in BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC.
It is this special player which run Android and BlackBerry Java based applications above the BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC. BlackBerry Playbook’s users only need to download the Android Apps or BlackBerry Java Apps into their Playbook and the apps can be ran directly. For developers, it is also quite easy to make their application can run on BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC. The developers only need to do repackage, code sign, and re-insert the Android and BlackBerry applications into BlackBerry App World.
To be noted, so far, BlackBerry Playbook only supports Android 2.3 Gingerbread’s applications and no any words yet about the support for Tablet PC optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb‘s applications. But, the support may be available soon since Android Honeycomb is specialized for Tablet PC. Beside the Android and BlackBerry Java apps, BlackBerry Playbook also supports Flash, Adobe Air, HTML5, and C++. It means that beside the apps numbers, RIM also play the wider-software strategy.
Back to the Android apps support, it is true that this support make BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC become attractive since it can squarely fight the Apple iPad/iPad 2 which already have a ton of apps on Apple AppStore. However, this support also means that QNX as BlackBerry Playbook OS in dangerous since people will only know the Apple iOS and Android OS on their eyes. It is bad for QNX growth in future. However this situation is understandable if RIM do not intend to sell the QNX as Tablet PC OS.
It means that BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC has around 225 thousands apps available (200 thousands Android Apps plus 25 thousands BlackBerry Java Apps). It seems that RIM play the applications numbers as strategy to attract people to buy the BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC. This strategy is possible since RIM install the built-in special player (or special run-time environment) in BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC.
It is this special player which run Android and BlackBerry Java based applications above the BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC. BlackBerry Playbook’s users only need to download the Android Apps or BlackBerry Java Apps into their Playbook and the apps can be ran directly. For developers, it is also quite easy to make their application can run on BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC. The developers only need to do repackage, code sign, and re-insert the Android and BlackBerry applications into BlackBerry App World.
To be noted, so far, BlackBerry Playbook only supports Android 2.3 Gingerbread’s applications and no any words yet about the support for Tablet PC optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb‘s applications. But, the support may be available soon since Android Honeycomb is specialized for Tablet PC. Beside the Android and BlackBerry Java apps, BlackBerry Playbook also supports Flash, Adobe Air, HTML5, and C++. It means that beside the apps numbers, RIM also play the wider-software strategy.
Back to the Android apps support, it is true that this support make BlackBerry Playbook Tablet PC become attractive since it can squarely fight the Apple iPad/iPad 2 which already have a ton of apps on Apple AppStore. However, this support also means that QNX as BlackBerry Playbook OS in dangerous since people will only know the Apple iOS and Android OS on their eyes. It is bad for QNX growth in future. However this situation is understandable if RIM do not intend to sell the QNX as Tablet PC OS.
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