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RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX

Posted by Soulskill on from the reinventing-the-reinvented-wheel dept.

New submitter HommeDeJava writes "Research In Motion unveiled a new operating system for its tablet and smartphones at the company's BlackBerry developer conference in San Francisco. Called BlackBerry BBX, the new OS combines features of the existing BlackBerry OS and its recently acquired real-time QNX OS. Could BBX attract software developers and spur interest from consumers?"

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  1. As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ball by LWolenczak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I already know the future. Fail, of the epic kind.

  2. good enough for nuclear reactors by Jadware · · Score: 3, Insightful

    sounds like an industrial strength, secure platform that might actually be adopted by governments, enterprise companies, medical, etc. not sure how it will be marketed to education and gaming though, except by showing nice 3d framerates

  3. Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba by whistl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree. Too little, too late. It'll take years for them to turn things around, and they just don't have the time.

  4. Re:If it's not as closed as iOS/(locked down)Andro by BasilBrush · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apple pays 70%.
    Suppose RIM were ultra generous and paid 100%.

    So long as I sell 43% more on the Apple platform, I'm still making more money.

    Put it another way, I'd have to sell 70% of my iPhone sales on the RIM before I made as much.

    Ain't going to happen.

  5. Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba by Alomex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't get ahead of yourselves.

    Let's not forget that Apple came back from a far worse shape than this in the late 90s. It is way too early to say that "they just don't have time".

    They better put a move on it, pronto, would be a much more accurate statement.

  6. Re:As a blackberry user, I don't need a crystal ba by rtfa-troll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Key measures are a) profit share and b) share of web browsing c) number of app downloads and total number of (quality?) apps availble; in other words, what matters is how much the user use and can use their phones. Android will overtake Apple in these measures but it is taking much longer. If you think like this Apple is still ahead so far (and only just, and only if you include the iPod touch!).

    Incidentally, this shows that WP7 has almost no hope. If you are an app developer you will do an iPhone app and some will do an Android app to show you support "alternative" people. Soon it will be the other way round (in fact I'd say that it's already the other way round in some markets). The inertia you need to overcome the leader is too much. The only reason that Android is succeeding is that Apple left a low end in the market available for them to develop in. Now the market has to be analysed as the 1990's PC market. Apple is Apple. Android is Windows and Windows is OS2, a late entry by an an over-arrogant computing incumbent.

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