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Not So Fast: 40% of BlackBerry Apps Are Actually Android
As part of it's splashy launch of BlackBerry 10, the company announced Wednesday that it has 70,000 apps in its BlackBerry World app store today, along with 1,000 premium apps from top publishers.
Many BlackBerry Apps Not Native
Not so fast. These apps are not all hat they seem. In fact, a great portion of them are actually ported Android apps.
?40% are wrapped Android applications,? Martyn Mallick, VP of global alliances and business development at BlackBerry said to reporters.
For instance, the Skype app on BlackBerry 10 is actually a port from the Skype app for Android. Skype has built native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (Skype is owned by Microsoft) but it was easier for Skype to port its existing Android app before building specifically for BlackBerry.
Android To BlackBerry 10 Port-o-Thons
BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion) is relying on the port strategy in the short term to help developers get their apps onto the BlackBerry 10 platform fast. It encourages developers to build straight for BlackBerry 10 and the features that the operating system holds, but for now at least, it will basically take an app any way it can get it.
?The only way I can compare it is that it is a soft quality strategy,? said BlackBerry VP of developer relations Alec Saunders to ReadWrite. ?If you compare what we do to what Apple does," they make developers conform to all of these iOS guidelines or theywill boot you out of the store. "We are like, 'You know what? If you have a code base, we want if to run on the platform.' '?
Saunders said that BlackBerry will offer developers who build specifically for BlackBerry ?tangible marketing benefits,? which will be announced at a BlackBerry Jam Europe conference in Amsterdam next week. The suggestion seems to be that ported apps will not receive the same type of visibility or marketing from BlackBerry in its app store.
?When I say tangible marketing benefits, you are going to do better in our store [with a native BlackBerry app] than if you built for Android,? Saunders said. ?The porting strategy is there but increasingly we are going to be pushing people to build for BlackBerry to have the native parts of the BlackBerry experience because we think that experience is better.?
Saunders and the developer outreach team started doing ?port-o-thons? in January to get developers ?over the hump? in pushing out BlackBerry 10 apps ahead of today?s launch. One such port-a-thon brought nearly 15,000 apps to BlackBerry 10, while another added several thousand more. About 38,000 of the 70,000 apps in the new BlackBerry World app store are ports. As part of the port-a-thons, BlackBerry built a utility that can easily turn Android Apps into BlackBerry apps.
A Sound Short-Term Strategy
In the short term, the port strategy should work for BlackBerry. Developers maynotice that an app is actually an Android app and not a BlackBerry app, but most consumers won't know the difference. As long as it works, right?
As the presence of the ported Skype app shows, this strategy is a decent way for BlackBerry to quickly get top-tier apps to its nascent platform. And if BlackBerry 10 sales start taking off, developers who built directly for the platform could benefit better than they would on iOS or Android - which is a reasonable incentive to follow up quick ports with true, native BlackBerry 10 apps.
Image of BlackBerry z10 by Dan Rowinski.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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Acer takes on Apple with Retina-class laptop displays
Apple caught the PC industry off-guard in June when the company delivered the MacBook Pro with Retina Display. The four-megapixel LCD renders text and graphics with extreme clarity, and most who saw the display came away impressed.
But Apple may not be the only kid on the high-pixe-density block for much longer. Acer plans to include Retina-class displays in several laptop models, including at least one Ultrabook, by late spring.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Apple releases iOS 6.1 beta 5 for iPhone and iPad
Apple has released iOS 6.1 beta 5 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. This comes just a day before beta 4 was set to expire, and represents one of the longest gaps between beta releases in iOS' history. Furthermore, beta 5 still hasn't shown up over-the-air (OTA), so rather than the faster, more convenient delta-update-in-place, if you want beta 5 now, now, now, you'll have to download it from developer.apple.com and do a complete update via iTunes or Xcode.
As always, this beta is intended for registered developers so they can try out new application program interfaces (API) and make sure their apps are compatible before iOS 6.1 goes into general availability (GA), presumably sometime in the next couple of months.
(If anyone gets the OTA, let us know. It's spoiled us and made us lazy!)
Update: There's still no OTA, and this build has characteristics common to a gold master (GM) seed, including no expiration date. So whether this was a GM that Apple show stoppered for some reason and had to release simply to avoid the previous beta from expiring, or its something more, we'll have to wait and see.
Either way, if you want it, you'll have to get it via iTunes or Xcode.
Source: developer.apple.com
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Aretha Franklin, Cyndi Lauper and Steven Tyler defend the Grammy winner amid reports her National Anthem performance was pre-recorded.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Five apps to take advantage of Daydream in Android 4.2
Daydream was pretty quickly glanced over by most people when it was announced as part of the Android 4.2 release, but luckily some developers have started to make apps using the new feature. The latest revision of Jelly Bean just isn't available to that many people and the number and quality of daydream apps reflects that, but luckily there are some gems to be found if you go searching for them.
Read on past the break and see the top apps available right now to take advantage of the daydream functionality in Android 4.2.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Madonna's Hard Candy Fitness Opening Rome Location
The music star has strong ties to the country of her ancestors, but much of the headlines she makes in Italy have been controversial.
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There are a few options available to those wanting to run Android apps on a Windows machine. The first, and oldest, is the official Android emulator; there's also Bluestacks, which has been around for a while. Today another contender emerges -- WindowsAndroid, from Chinese startup SocketeQ. Unlike the emulator, it runs Android natively on your Windows PC, and unlike Bluestacks it brings to life the full Android OS, not just individual apps. Essentially, it's full-blown open-source Android running natively, in a window, on Microsoft's desktop OS.
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Friday, January 25, 2013
Musician Claims 'Glee' Stole His Version of 'Baby Got Back'
Jonathan Coulton maintains the Fox show used his banjo-infused cover of the hip-hop song without credit.