Can you install apps without a gatekeeper on Blackberry 10? Like you can currently do on OSX, Windows, Android etc?
How was this in previous versions?
BlackBerry 10 Live Webcast
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#22why are so many people excited over this? all I got was...blackberry has apps...what's my incentive to switch from android then?
My reasons for being excited:
1) Physical keyboard in the Q10
2) No Android, no Google
3) Hardware and software made by the same company
4) No Samsung/HTC/etc crapware customizations
5) Hopefully more top-down design and app store curation ala iOS
6) My Bold 9900 feels expensive; most Android phones I've played with feel cheap and plasticky
7) LTE, which the otherwise interesting Nexus 4 doesn't have
8) The BB10 UI looks less like an art school project than WP8
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#2370k Apps on the New Platform. I am very impressed by this. They mentioned all the popular apps that have come onboard.. but I didn't see a mention of Instagram. That resonates with the young crowd. Instagram should have been in the Keynote pitch!
Never the less, this could have gone horribly wrong, but I think BB did good today.
edit: I hope the iPhone does something similar to Peak. Which I thought was a lot more intuitive than double-tapping the home-button, switching apps, then switching back.
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#24why are so many people excited over this? all I got was...blackberry has apps...what's my incentive to switch from android then?
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#25I tried to develop an epub reader app for BB10 using their HTML5 webworks toolkit. I know it is probably not the best platform for this given the XML work required for the format, but I couldn't get past the "open a file on the device" step. A quick look through their developer forums showed a lot of people with the same issue.
Oh, and I'm also not experienced with developing apps for any BB platform so I admit that I'm definitely part of the problem.
That being said, I'm rooting for them. The space needs a third player. They really need to figure out simple things like this though.
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#26"We've created a new position at BlackBerry, a Global Creative Director." "We needed someone who is creative, and into technology." "Alicia Keys is BlackBerry's new Creative Director." NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Can you smell the desperation?
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#27I tried to develop an epub reader app for BB10 using their HTML5 webworks toolkit. I know it is probably not the best platform for this given the XML work required for the format, but I couldn't get past the "open a file on the device" step. A quick look through their developer forums showed a lot of people with the same issue. Oh, and I'm also not experienced with developing apps for any BB platform so I admit that…
> The space needs a third player
Microsoft?
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#28"We've created a new position at BlackBerry, a Global Creative Director." "We needed someone who is creative, and into technology." "Alicia Keys is BlackBerry's new Creative Director." NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Can you smell the desperation?
This is a sure sign in any presentation that they're done talking about things that will actually sell their product.
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#29Having developed for BB before, I cannot tell how bad their toolchain and libraries and HW/SW protocol layers are. I highly doubt that they can fix all these in one big fat major release. Considering the fact that RIM is bleeding, this may be their one and only chance though. Good luck RIM, it is always good to have more options in the market...
They've totally tossed the old SDK; you use either[0] "Cascades" (Qt derivative, looks like), WebWorks (HTML5), Android, or AIR.
[0] https://developer.blackberry.com/develop/platform_choice/bb1...
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#30I tried to develop an epub reader app for BB10 using their HTML5 webworks toolkit. I know it is probably not the best platform for this given the XML work required for the format, but I couldn't get past the "open a file on the device" step. A quick look through their developer forums showed a lot of people with the same issue. Oh, and I'm also not experienced with developing apps for any BB platform so I admit that…
You should look into using their Cascades toolkit. It's based on Qt/QML so anything you learn there will be useful for desktop Linux, Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Phone, Sailfish, Plasma Active and also for Android and iOS soon. It's a worthwhile investment in my mind.
https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/ https://qt-project.org/