Right, so either way it's a lot more work than most people realize to "just port" an app between platforms. Except maybe Android -> BB10 or it's primarily a web app or using a common game engine.

Making an app available on Android generally doesn't double the revenue they were making on iOS. There have been a number of iPhone apps that have ported to Android and found that their support costs go up but they don't make nearly as much revenue. There are certainly exceptions but they tend to be big apps that can get a lots of views of ads, like Angry Birds.

Porting from iOS to Android is far from trivial. Plus Android users will post bad reviews for apps that look too much like iOS. So you have to redo half of the graphics and some of the UX unless it's a game. At that point, it takes nearly as much work to do the Android "port" as the original version.

I don't have the time to keep up with 2 platforms in depth and, personally, I just don't like Java or the tools. It'd take something far more compelling that lots of eyeballs (without lots of dollars) to make the effort for Android.

I agree, a slide-out keyboard would've been really nice. Even tweaking the size / form factor of the keyboard models would've been nice. It's hard to believe the keyboard one is a new device, especially next to the Z10. I don't want BB to start having dozens of models again though.

They showed a keyboard version. They just haven't announced launch dates for it yet.

And 7 hours later, they renamed the company to BlackBerry anyway.

Rumour has it the C alpha dev device will be the x10 form factor. They just starting talking about there being a C device a few weeks ago, so dev probably won't see it for at least a month. I'd be surprised it it were for sale to the public before June.

The 10k guarantee is not for any app that makes 1k. The app needs to go through "Built for BlackBerry" approval that's separate and comes after the app world approval. The bar for "Built for BlackBerry" has been set so high that the BB dev forums are full of posts questioning if anything is getting it at all. Seeing the very few apps that have passed that approval, it seems ludicrous to think they wouldn't make 10k. So the guarantee is really only a hedge for top-shelf apps against the platform bombing.

It's not even that clean-cut. You end up with mixed unit generations. I can't think of stuff from the size of an eraser to an armspan in anything but inches though smaller stuff makes sense in mm (or decimal portions of a mm for precision work). But I have no feeling for the length of a mile or reasonable speeds in mph. People weigh lbs but food weighs grams, except potatoes. I wouldn't mind except we don't seem to be encouraging the younger generations to make a more complete adoption of metric. We just went partway then stopped.

In Canada bottles are ~330ml but a beer at a pub is still a whole pint (~500ml). It is a different culture if you think of a modern bottle of beer as a pint. I can't imagine that.

You just stop ordering "a pint of brand X" and order "a brand-X". If Canadians can do it, you'll be okay.

It creates jobs and gives every red-blooded male an excuse to double his tool collection (at least the stuff like socket sets where you can get great bargains), what are we waiting for?

Actually, in metric it'd make sense to order a half litre which gets you almost an extra 2 tablespoons of beer.

Because (1) the webpage would get blocked for the people who need to use proxies and (2) you don't want to give everyone the same proxies.

He did contact Hotmail about it. He got a form letter response, replied again and hasn't heard anything. Yahoo keeps just sending him generic, irrelevant articles from their knowledge base. Neither company is "contact-able" in any useful way.

Few Canadians heat their homes with electricity since there are much cheaper options available. It may contribute to the use of energy sources (oil and natural gas, mostly) but it does not significantly contribute to the use of electrical energy. So the nuclear plants aren't directly keeping Canadians thawed out.