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Big Surprise: RIM’s PlayBook Tablet QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS in Phones

15 points by bakbak 16y ago

gaius 16y ago
Surreal! Headline: Big Surprise: RIM’s PlayBook Tablet QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS in Phones First paragraph: Surprising no one, a Research in Motion vice president confirmed this morning that the fancy new QNX operating system in its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will eventually replace the traditional BlackBerry OS in its smartphone
- bryanlarsen 16y ago
  Maybe the New York Times should throw out its much-vaunted style guide and adopt the smiley as a sarcasm indicator...
pietrofmaggi 16y ago
I don't know if and when QNX will be used on the phones, but I think that this can be a big win for developers that can have access to an high quality kernel and a serious SDK: From the interview to Dan Dodge, co-founder and CEO of QNX Software Systems: http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/09/blackberry-tablet-os/ http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/09/blackberry-tablet-os/ For applications that require access to the native OS environment, developers can develop and port C/C++ applications and also take advantage of the QNX® Momentics® Tool Suite, which is based on the Eclipse standard.
- sigzero 16y ago
  I play with QNX when you could boot the entire OS from a floppy.
  - cashman 16y ago
    Hah! I remember that, from back when I still _had_ a floppy. Had a whole desktop GUI, TCP stack and web browser in 1.4 MB.
raganwald 16y ago
I'm sorry for whinging without adding much substance to the article analysis, but I wish that companies like RIM would try to copy Apple's "cone of silence" rather than (or in addition to) copying their product's superficial appearances. When Apple brought out Intel macs, the announcement was "We're running on Intel NOW." When they brought out the iPhone, the announcement was "It's running a cousin of OS X, NOW." With RIM, I'm getting "There will be a tablet _Real Soon Now_." and "We will run everything on QNX _eventually_." If they can't ship it today, is there a prototype they can show? If there isn't a prototype, is there an SDK with an emulator so that developers can get started? No? This is dreadful, it's like a guy on his back in MMA getting his face punched in, and he's talking about how he's going to hit the weights and beat his opponent up in the rematch.
- elblanco 16y ago
  I'm sure a lot of it has to do with their enterprise customers. I'm sure 90% of them have never even heard of QNX let alone decided on some arbitrary policy they can begin to prepare to have meetings where they pretend to decide what kinds of ramifications it'll have on their IT infrastructure.

15 points by bakbak 16y ago

gaius 16y ago

Surreal! Headline: Big Surprise: RIM’s PlayBook Tablet QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS in Phones First paragraph: Surprising no one, a Research in Motion vice president confirmed this morning that the fancy new QNX operating system in its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will eventually replace the traditional BlackBerry OS in its smartphone

bryanlarsen 16y ago
Maybe the New York Times should throw out its much-vaunted style guide and adopt the smiley as a sarcasm indicator...

pietrofmaggi 16y ago

I don't know if and when QNX will be used on the phones, but I think that this can be a big win for developers that can have access to an high quality kernel and a serious SDK: From the interview to Dan Dodge, co-founder and CEO of QNX Software Systems: http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/09/blackberry-tablet-os/ http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/09/blackberry-tablet-os/ For applications that require access to the native OS environment, developers can develop and port C/C++ applications and also take advantage of the QNX® Momentics® Tool Suite, which is based on the Eclipse standard.

sigzero 16y ago
I play with QNX when you could boot the entire OS from a floppy.
- cashman 16y ago
  Hah! I remember that, from back when I still _had_ a floppy. Had a whole desktop GUI, TCP stack and web browser in 1.4 MB.

raganwald 16y ago

I'm sorry for whinging without adding much substance to the article analysis, but I wish that companies like RIM would try to copy Apple's "cone of silence" rather than (or in addition to) copying their product's superficial appearances. When Apple brought out Intel macs, the announcement was "We're running on Intel NOW." When they brought out the iPhone, the announcement was "It's running a cousin of OS X, NOW." With RIM, I'm getting "There will be a tablet _Real Soon Now_." and "We will run everything on QNX _eventually_." If they can't ship it today, is there a prototype they can show? If there isn't a prototype, is there an SDK with an emulator so that developers can get started? No? This is dreadful, it's like a guy on his back in MMA getting his face punched in, and he's talking about how he's going to hit the weights and beat his opponent up in the rematch.

elblanco 16y ago
I'm sure a lot of it has to do with their enterprise customers. I'm sure 90% of them have never even heard of QNX let alone decided on some arbitrary policy they can begin to prepare to have meetings where they pretend to decide what kinds of ramifications it'll have on their IT infrastructure.