I just hope they stop requiring dev builds to go through a signing process on their servers. This alone would do wonders for their third party support.
BlackBerry 10 Live Webcast
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#32I 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/
Thanks. I'll check it out.
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#33Can 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?
IIRC from my time with the PlayBook, everything has to be signed, but there's minimal hoops to getting your own signing key (no fee). Unclear if you could load arbitrary apps that you haven't personally signed, never tried.
Old BlackBerry, everything had to be signed by RIM's servers, even for dev builds. Which is incredibly entertaining when their servers go down while you're trying to get a release out (those days are far, far behind me now)
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The goal is to keep blackberry users from switching to android and stop the hemorraghing. Then they can worry about getting customers back.
But this is a whole new UI for blackberry. That means they're employees / customers would have to learn a new ui regardless. While there is already a large possibility that they are already using an Android or iPhone at home.
A new UI is only a bad thing if your customers like the old UI. People were actively leaving the BB platform just so they can learn a (not shitty) UI - so this is on the whole a good thing.
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#35"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
I guess they really needed to get one of these "rock-star" executives.
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#3670k 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 in…
What good is 70k apps if ~69k of them are are crap?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
But this is a whole new UI for blackberry. That means they're employees / customers would have to learn a new ui regardless. While there is already a large possibility that they are already using an Android or iPhone at home.
A new UI is only a bad thing if your customers like the old UI. People were actively leaving the BB platform just so they can learn a (not shitty) UI - so this is on the whole a good thing.
For an IT team, it's not if the employees like the UI, it's if they can figure out how to use it without a huge expense in training them.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't agree with you on the magical one thumb experience. I don't feel that my Android and iOS devices allow me to navigate that smoothly throughout my content, social networks and applications in general. The keyboard and the one thumb mode was also very impressive.
Oh really? Hm. Well, maybe I'm bashing their marketing too early. But I've been typing with one thumb on iOS and Android for like 4 years and have been pretty well satisfied. It could be improved I'm sure, and maybe BB has improved it. But whatever they've done, calling it 'Magic' makes me laugh.
It's something that was (IMO) ruined by this trend for giant phones. I can't even reach the notification bar of my Android phone without heavy straining now.
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#39"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
It's a silly position, but I can see why they did it. Blackberry used to be cool. Now it most definitely is not.
There's an argument to be made that they should give up on the consumer market and just go "all professional", of course, but I'm not sure that works long term.
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#40"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
Oh, we got our feet on the ground
And we're burning it down
Oh, got our head in the clouds
And we're not coming down
This girl is on fire This girl is on fire She's walking on fire This girl is on fire