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RIM Changes Stance On PlayBook's Android Support
hypnosec writes "It hasn't been long since the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced that its QNX based tablet device, the PlayBook, will be supporting Android implementation on it. However, it has been revealed now that a sizable portion of Android apps will be cut off from running on the moderately successful tablet device. The news thus leads us to a situation where Android developers might not be interested anymore in coming up with new apps for the QNX powered gadget. The Android apps that won't be working in the PlayBook include Android Live Wallpapers; apps that contain more than one activity tied to the launcher, the Android text-to-speech engine, and Android cloud-to-device messaging service, amongst a few others."
A friend of mine bought one, and I can confirm that it sucks ass. Not unlike the new BB phones. I will not be buying any more RIM products, and I have heard the same from many people. I didn't play with it extensively, but it seems like they put about 20 minutes of thought into designing the damn thing. RIM, it seems, cannot design good products anymore. I think maybe they hired the UI devs of Blender and GIMP and then told them to come up with something in a week. Also, every part on this thing is cheap junk. The USB port was flaky and the battery was junk. What's the matter RIM, was China to expensive and you had to outsource to Somalia or some shit?
It doesn't even really matter if they can run Android shit or not, no amount of Apps will save this broken company from itself. They are too happy living in a land that reality forgot to make anything worth using anymore. As soon as I can upgrade from this fucking stupid BB Torch that randomly calls whores and puts them on a three-way call with my girlfriend when I take it out of the holster, I will be living a happy RIM-free life.
Moral of the story: This fucking junk isn't even worth taking as a gift.