>From what I understand app acquisition will be limited to RIMs AppWorld app >store, and afaik there's nothing which would stop the Playbook hardware being >a 2.3 CDD compliant device even if they didn't jump through all the hoops to >get Market certification.
Al. -- T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 27 Mar 2011, at 17:21, Mark Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Chris Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not too excited about that only because I've heard rumblings that there >> could be performance issues considering it's likely emulation would be >> needed to pull it off. > > Perhaps not. I think I read that the Playbook is running a hypervisor, > so it's conceivable that Android runs full-speed on the hardware. > > The bigger question is to what extent they have passed the CDD and > CTS, the compatibility tests for getting the Android Market. They > don't want the Android Market, and so may have felt no particular need > to meet those specs. As such, an arbitrary app may or may not work > well on the device. > > For possibly-popular one-off devices like this or the nookColor (once > their market is available), developers are pretty much just going to > have to shell out for the device to determine if their app will work > on it and therefore is worth distributing to that device's users. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in Oslo: http://bit.ly/fjBo24 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
