On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 10:16:36 AM UTC-4, Alexandra MLO Support wrote: > Hello Peter, MLO development is currently focused on iOS and Android > platforms and MLO team supports an existing Blackberry device models but > doesn't actively work on BB Z10 or Q10 support. >
BlackBerry 10.1 can run Android 2 apps, and BlackBerry 10.2 will be able to run Android 4 apps (and, presumably, Android 2 apps better than 10.1). It looks like MLO works on Android 2 so it should work on current BB10 (10.1) with little work. BlackBerry even has a nice webapp that does compatability checking for you at https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/android/bpaa/ (BlackBerry Packager for Android Apps). Isn't it worth taking this incredibly minimal effort in order to provide at least some level of support those who have used your older BlackBerry software forever and are either still loyal to / like or are forced to use that platform? And it's not that much more effort to take a look at their doc on how to make small changes to you Android app to ensure it works well as-is, or slightly bigger changes to integrate with some of BlackBerry's platform-specific features, such as the Hub. I'm pretty certain that for Windows Phone you have to rewrite *everything*. So it's not just a simple choice, it's spending probably an order of magnitude less time for one than the other. Let's say BB10 sales are half of Windows Phone sales. That might not matter so much if having a BlackBerry version available is going to take significantly less than half the time of a Windows Phone port. And that's not even factoring in economics - people on BlackBerry seem to be willing to pay significantly more for apps than people on iOS or Android; you could easily charge $9.99 in addition to any ongoing sync fees. (SlickTasks, which is like MLO but with maybe 5% of the features, manages to do this and still be very well-regarded.) I'm guessing the ratio of large business doing massive iPad deployments doesn't compare favorably to large businesses doing massive BlackBerry deployments. Just getting one or two large corporate accounts could make a BlackBerry 10 android port worth it. And if that goes well, perhaps a native app :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
