Remember those crazy people who said the PlayBook didn’t exist? Well, RIM demoed its PlayBook live on stage today at the Adobe Air Max conference. Why this conference? Well, the entire user interface of the PlayBook and the QNX-based operating system it runs is written in Adobe AIR – and AIR is also the developer framework for third party applications.
This is my dream tablet mmmmmmmmmmmm
I hope you can program in something else, or else most 3rd party will not be very complex..
Do you really think that the ability to code applications in C derivatives has given some level of complexity to iPhone Apps ?
I think it’s mostly most a matter of how devs view the platform : if it’s just a gadget to toy with for them, we’ll see simplistic applications, and chances are that they’ll be highly unoptimized since Flash/AIR somewhat favors that. The good side being that Flash technology favors people who have good ideas but don’t want to dive in obscure code (multiple examples on armorgames and kongregate).
For more serious applications, well… Mappy was done in flash not so long ago, so you *can* do something serious with it.
they pulled a microsoft and demonstrated full screen hd video running perfectly on the web, except it wasnt full screen and it wasn’t running perfectly
Does this mean that when QNX becomes the OS used by BlackBerry phones Air will be the preferred SDK for those as well?
I don’t know but that demo didn’t really assure me that it’s going to live up to the commercial they made for it.
I think the commercial was all special effects and if they want it to be that fast and responsive they have a lot of work to do. Past experience with video game previews leads me to think they might fall short come release time.
But who knows? I’m just going to take the wait and see approach that’s all.
Are you actually suggesting that people should wait more than a week after a product announcement before declaring “vapourware”?!?!?!
> the entire user interface of the PlayBook and the QNX-based operating system it runs is written in Adobe AIR
May be that comes from my not-so-good knowledge of English, but I read this phrase as both the (1) entire user interface of the PlayBook and the (2) QNX-based operating system it runs is written in Adobe AIR. Did You actually mean the entire user interface of the PlayBook running on top of the QNX-based operating system is written in Adobe AIR?