BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
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Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#2I suppose if you are the type of person who thinks that it makes sense to be CEO of BlackBerry, you are the type of person who thinks it is reasonable to ask the the government forces developers to write apps for your failed platform.
Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#3Plainly "Not-going-to-happen."
BlackBerry should pay developers to write apps for them. Not force hardworking Programmers to develop apps for them.
Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#4Well, he's right in one sense: legislatively mandated net neutrality is actually no less rights-violating than forcing app developers to support Blackberry.
Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#5Plainly "Not-going-to-happen." BlackBerry should pay developers to write apps for them. Not force hardworking Programmers to develop apps for them.
Been there, done that. At one point they were giving away tablets in exchange for an app, so thought I'd give it a go. Their development process was more or less "write an android app, then run it through a converter.". So I did, and it worked rather poorly. Got my tablet, wrote off Bb for good.
Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#6Blackberry can go fuck itself.
Blackberry had a qwerty board on their phones long before anyone else and yet they decided to rely on being the only player in town instead of innovating. I hope Firefox OS takes over and the Blackberry CEO has no choice but to switch to it because of the great ecosystem.
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#7If the BB platform wasn't a hunk of junk I would probably agree, it is creating an unfair playing field. The reality is, the blackberry dev tools are not equal, they are terrible and the reason we do not build for BB is not because we're evil and do not like them, its because they do not provide the tools to run a profitable business on their sub-par platform.
To be fair, the iOS and Android platforms are far from perfect, but they have enough user facing features that consumers like that they gain significant distribution and allows companies to build apps at a profit.
BB need to build better products, maybe then they will see people want to work with them. This is just a CEO who doesn't get it complaining because he isn't smart enough to fix the problem he was hired to solve.
Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#8Make your own competing apps and quit bothering people.
This guy has the mind of a child. I develop for the platforms I want, if he wants rules like this, try communist Russia.
Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#9Might as well get them on this after they have control of the internet. Could make some cash.
Re: BlackBerry CEO Wants FCC to Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory
#10Every OS? I look forward to seeing Blackberry's apps on IOS. Note, that is 'IOS', the cisco OS, not Apple's 'iOS'. :)
In any case, the concept of 'net neutrality', when applied to code, is 'open source'. It's not 'you must do free work for me', but 'here is the code without favouring anyone'.
Of course, this is just a publicity stunt to get people talking about BB.