Comments on: Updated: More Than One Reason Why RIM's BlackBerry 10 Phones Are Late?

By: Jamesapple

Jamesapple — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:53:03 +0000

QNX microkernel offers kernel level services to the OS which must add in the missing 90% of code to make the OS complete, and this is on a per-device basis, meaning if you build two devices, say, a 7-inch Playbook and a 10-inch LTE Playbook, then you would have two Rim OS’s both based on QNX but each having to add in the 90% additional code in order to make these different Playbooks complete, notwithstanding the all-important and mandatory design and bug shakedowns, and all of these must be in place and ready before any interested developer would begin writing one single line of code for apps that would run on these Rim things. Rim said it could make QNX run Android? That would be impossible because even Samsung, LG, Motorola native Android machines are not compatible with each other, QNX’s supposedly Android player would not work at all being an extra layer away from hosting Android, which Android would that be? and which Android apps? This won’t fly.

It took Apple 33 years to get it right, Apple wasn’t a company that started in 2006. The foundation of iOS comes from the world’s most robust, trusted, tested, endorsed, written for, copied after and celebrated technology company in the world, Apple.

Frankly, how can Rim compete? A machine is far far more than a mobile browser. As if you have absolutely no idea about it. Ever used an iPhone?

By: ginger

ginger — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:03:40 +0000

I happen to be of a different opinion. The browser renders faster and cleaner than the fastest Android I had the chance to play with, which (I’m told) is better than the iphone’s.
I use 4-5 apps on a daily basis and maybe 10 in total, and I don’t need more just because the respective websites don’t render properly.
Oh, and I looove the keyboard…

Regardless, there seems to be more to the BB10 delay than the lame LTE chip excuse (but NOT some “incompatibility” between QNX and email :-), one thinks they would have figured this long ago…)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:21:27 +0000

It his hard to fathom how a company so large and who used to hold such a market dominant position could allow this to happen. I imagine few people will argue with the strengths of the Blackberry (email), but using it for any other purpose can just be painful when compared to an iOS or Android device.