doubtful Gord, I think the promise of PlayBook support alongside BlackBerry10 Support was contingent on porting BB10 to the playbook. My understanding is that this is considered infeasible due to the ram requirements of BB10.
One way or another no one is currently stepping up to the plate to maintain BBOS and PlayBook. - Lorin On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Gord Tanner <[email protected]> wrote: > I am just a little annoyed because of the promise that we would get > PlayBook support with the big BlackBerry 10 rewrite that was done. The > promise was we were just shelving the Java Phone OS code and cleaning up > things for PlayBook and BlackBerry 10. > > I hope that the official support for BlackBerry 10 isn't thrown out as > quickly as PlayBook support was as soon as BlackBerry 11 is released. > > Like I said in a previous email, we went from supporting every blackberry > device in cordova to supporting only 2 devices (Z10 and Q10). > > Would the community be as accepting if we said Cordova only supported iOS7 > on the iPhone5? > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think, or at least thought, that is what Lorin meant. > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Anis KADRI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > "Remove" ? No! Just leave the source in there. Somebody might be > > interested > > > in it. We can stop shipping it though if we are still doing it. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Lorin Beer <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > >> Scare-quotes due to playbook never being an officially supported > > platform. > > >> > > >> After discussing playbook with Bryan and Jeff from BlackBerry, a few > > points > > >> came up: > > >> > > >> 1. BB10 won't be coming to the PlayBook platform > > >> 2. The work required to bring it up to 3.0 spec is not justified by > > >> interest or number of devices > > >> 3. Many would rather see any effort directed to Playbook go towards > BBOS > > >> instead, and that is unlikely to happen. > > >> > > >> Without further support for the platform, and with that support being > > >> poorly justified, I suggest the Playbook platform be removed from > > Cordova. > > >> > > >> > > >> - Lorin > > >> > > >
