RIM Changes Stance On PlayBook's Android Support 112
hypnosec writes "It hasn't been long since the BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced that its QNX based tablet device, the PlayBook, will be supporting Android implementation on it. However, it has been revealed now that a sizable portion of Android apps will be cut off from running on the moderately successful tablet device. The news thus leads us to a situation where Android developers might not be interested anymore in coming up with new apps for the QNX powered gadget. The Android apps that won't be working in the PlayBook include Android Live Wallpapers; apps that contain more than one activity tied to the launcher, the Android text-to-speech engine, and Android cloud-to-device messaging service, amongst a few others."
Re:Playbook? (Score:0, Informative)
Sigh. The only thing that the new Kindle shares with the playbook is the physical size and screen resolution.
The playbook has a dual core 1ghz arm9 processor, 1G ram, 16G minimum internal storage, and also has better battery life than the kindle. Not to mention of all the tablets on the market, nothing comes close to a playbook in its multi-tasking.
This bad press about the android compatibility not being "complete" makes me think nobody bothered to think about it. Of course they don't support widgets and live wallpapers - otherwise its a full Android UI. They just want Android compatibility, not Android itself. Otherwise they'd have just dropped Android on it.
Watch out for QNX, it's a beast of a multitasking OS, and it's not going anywhere.