RIM now accepting App World submissions for PlayBook applications

By on Dec 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Software December 7, 2010

Today, Research In Motion announced that it has “opened the BlackBerry App World vendor portal to begin accepting BlackBerry PlayBook apps from developers.” The company has yet to communicate a release date for the highly-anticipated tablet.

“Interest and momentum behind the BlackBerry PlayBook continues to build and we are thrilled with the positive response from both the developer community and our customers,” said Tyler Lessard, RIM’s VP of Global Alliances & Developer Relations. “We are very pleased to be working with developers in advance of the product launch and the opening of BlackBerry App World to accept BlackBerry PlayBook apps is an important next step.”

The press release also noted that developers who “submit a qualifying BlackBerry PlayBook app that is accepted into BlackBerry App World prior to the initial product launch in North America” will receive a free PlayBook for their efforts.

There you have it developers. Submit early, submit often, and stake your claim to a free PlayBook!

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  • RealTalk

    Great! The QNX os is super cool and quick. Plus the Playbook performance crushes iPad. This device will rock!

    • http://twitter.com/gingerjet tim shea

      You are making a observation of performance between a device that is shipping and a device that no one has touched or seen yet. Blackberry has released showing videos before but when the device actually ships the performance is never on par with the marketing. You have nothing to base your opinion on.

      • Anon

        Other than the multiple videos of the actual device being shown and handled by others in a public forum, you mean. Right?

    • Anonymous

      That’s UnRealTalk

  • DTownTony

    Why? It’s just vaporware…..right?

    • DTOWNToni

      PlayBook > iPad

      • Anonymous

        But will Playbook be greater than iPad2 as thats what it will be competing with?

      • DTownTony

        Has anyone seen the iPad2 yet? or held it? if the answer is no than iPad2 must be vaporware also.

      • Len

        In my opinion, a tablet is defined by the OS on it. The OS defines how you will use the device, what kind of methods you will use to achieve things, and how efficiently you can do it. iPad2 is going to have pretty much the same old boring iOS as the iPad and from the looks of it, QNX seems to be a much more appealing, intuitive and secure OS.

        Therefore imo, Playbook > iPad2

      • http://twitter.com/gingerjet tim shea

        @DTownTony and @Len

        No one has seen or touched a PlayBook either. You can’t make a judgment based on a non-existent product. Also I don’t see how you can make a judgment on how QNX will work on this type of device. In other words – you are completely clueless.

        So its really:

        iPad.

      • Len

        @tim shea.

        I am comparing the Playbook to the Ipad2. As far as I’m concerned, I know a lot more and have seen a lot more on the Playbook than the Ipad2.

        If the Ipad2 is just a refresh of the Ipad, which it will be, then I’m sorry but all the video evidence of Playbooks being demonstrated live would lead me to prefer the QNX OS over iOS.

        Did you doubt the Ipad when Steve Jobs first demoed it live? Probably not… Has the Ipad lived up to what was demoed? Yes, it is indeed a toy.

      • Plo Koon

        Timmy,

        You mean YOU haven’t seen or touched the Playbook. It’s true Playbook is not widely available but plenty of people in the know have touched it and played with it. But who am I kidding. No amount of hands-on demonstrations can ever satisfy iFans. The FACT is, an unoptimaized Playbook running on single core matches up pretty well against the current iPad. When iPad2 comes along, I’m sure it’s specs will exceed that of the Playbook. Even Stevo is not stupid enough to put out a refresh without better specs than the incumbents. Then again, six months after the launch of iPad2, I’m sure there’ll be a Playbook2 that will shame iPad2. You see a pattern here?

      • Anonymous

        Based on Apple’s previous “upgrades” – this will add another 256 MB or Ram, a new back, a different shade of black on the bezel, and include the updated version of magic. And the iFanboys will buy it.

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm. . so even though we “don’t need apps for the web,” as the thin co-ceo claimed a few weeks back, RIM is welcoming app submissions. There’s nothing like consistency.

    • Len

      He said that you do need apps, however you don’t need apps which have the purpose of simply launching you into an over-glorified webpage.

  • Anonymous

    This thing looks really nice because it doesn’t remind me of a Blackberry

  • Booboolala2000

    Spring ’11. Probably after the iPad 2 and the new Honeycomb tablets. So sad. Just adopt android already and skin it with blackberry utilities that people want.

  • Anonymous

    This is good news bad news. RIM has done a much better job at creating something in the footsteps of Apple’s iPad. RIM’s problem remains the same. This device needs to be better than what Apple is releasing next. Just being better than a product that was completed a year ago and has been on the market for nine months is simply not going to gain it any traction in the market place.

    This is not the cell phone market. Cell phones are a billion+ device industry each year and can sustain four or five big players. That is not the case for the Tablet market (ie Apple iPad market). If the Playbook is better than what Apple is going to do next then yeah for RIM. I like RIM and unlike most believe they are far from peaking and declining (like Android is doing).

    Come April we will have a very good idea who is who in this market. That being said the chances of Apple not still dominating the tablet market are between nil and negative nil.

    • Anonymous

      I think you are quite right, but there will be more players and they will be different via prices. We have already seen the $100 tablet and it sucks but while people still buy them there will be two tiers in the tablet space, the pads/playbooks/certain androids of the world and the “other” guys. But something to rival the iPad is way over due, lets see if this is it.

  • Suzie Q

    I was a Blackberry supporter for 7 faithful years until I FINALLY gave the iphone 4 & ipad a shot. Long story short RIM has years of catching up to do and I fel like the BB Playbook will not hold a candle to the ipad 2 in NO WAY POSSIBLE. RIM is cheap and recycles technology from old devices to new ones. Their processor power is lackluster and if their Facebook app can’t even compare to the one on iphone, what makes u think their Playbook will compete against the ipad 2? RIM will be the next NEXTEL in 4 years tops. All hail APPLE and ANDROID….leading the future!

    • Giovanni

      Suzie Q, you must live under a rock. The Playbook is completely different than anything RIM has ever done before. New OS (QNX), processor, flash, etc, etc, etc….if you truly believe that this product isn’t better than the current ipad, give your head a shake. Watch the videos of it performing live, it is a speed demon! It does TRUE multitasking and will run websites the way they are supposed to be seen, not the way apple forces you to look at them. Yes, ipad2 will be up to spec with the playbook when it eventually comes out, but the bottom line is, the playbook is not ‘old’ technology on its release date like RIM’s current products. It will take a long time before the playbook becomes old, thus, addressing a key issue for BB lovers. Be prepared, after you try this just once, your gonna think twice about your icrap devices….that is, if you don’t act like a typical ifan and pronounce it junk before even using it. Use this device with an open mind and your beloved ipad will be a distant memory!

      for the FB app, i don’t know when you got rid of your berry, but about 4 months ago RIM updated the fb app and it flies on my hunk of junk 9630. So please, know your roll before you speak.

      PS, ios really needs a makeover.

  • Max

    Playbook will be for little girls with dainty hands. 7″ screen? Are you joking? I wonder how many apps this pile will get, seeing as how so many develops ‘lined up’ to make all 3000 BB Appworld apps. And they will probably be garbage apps like BB has on their ‘flagship’ OS6 which they quickly dumped for QNX. Sinking ship for morons who love rimjobs.

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