LAS VEGAS - Research in Motion (RIM) does accept the bitter truth when sales of the BlackBerry Playbook tablets experienced a total failure in the market. In Electronick International Consumer Show (CES) 2012, officially Playbook is updated. But that is not the great hope that RIM Playbook its success.
Canadian vendor that just great hope and Android native applications they are able to boost sales in the future Playbook. As is known, at the BlackBerry Developer Confernce, RIM revealed that the application can run on Android OS platform Playbook.
Reported by Computer World, Thursday (01/12/2012), at the CES 2012 show how the Playbook with RIM OS 2.0 is capable of running Android applications. RIM understand well, the combination of the two platforms are able to save the sale of their tablets.
"Popular games such as Cut The Rope, Angry Birds and Plant vs Zombies will be available in stores, said Alec Saunders, vice president of RIM developers and ecosystem development.
The application appears and works like any other application, the user does not have to launch separate software to run it. Although Android applications can run on Playbook, but not carelessly Android applications will be accessible by the user.
"We do not want to enable the path to the Android Market," he said. Android Developers should use a software package to make their applications compatible with the Playbook, and then they must submit the application standardization RIM.
The company hopes to get rid of malware and pirated applications that often appear in Android Market.
"There is one limitation with the Android application in the Playbook. Users will be able to multitask several applications at the Android tablet but only one application running Android in combination with the original application, said Saunders.
