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Ported iOS Game 30% Faster on Blackberry Playbook

13 points by wmat 14y ago

SG- 14y ago
Seems like a mis-leading title, so it launches 30% faster after you clear it from the OS cache. While "interesting" it would be better to find a benchmark that can actually stress both devices or go beyond 60FPS to see which actually is faster.
scovetta 14y ago
30% sounds like a lot, but that looked like about 300-400 milliseconds, which isn't very interesting. (That said, showing that you could port a native iOS app to RIM in X days would be an interesting metric, since the size of the App Store dwarfs the BB Store.) (RIM, are you listening? No one cares about sub-second speed increases, Flash, external SD slots, multiprocessor whiz-bang GPUs, and most of the rest of your marketing material. Make a product that amazes my parents, and you've got something. Sell to the techies, and you seal your fate.)
- Sunlis 14y ago
  Porting an iOS app to RIM doesn't matter anymore. The new Blackberry OS (BB 10) is going to run Android apps [0], essentially making the Blackberry App Store irrelevant (in my opinion). [0] https://developer.blackberry.com/android/ https://developer.blackberry.com/android/
  - bryanlarsen 14y ago
    The Blackberry App Store isn't going to be irrelevant, since Blackberries won't be running Google Play. Android developers will have to submit their apps to the Blackberry App Store for them to be available for BB10 users to buy.
cicloid 14y ago
Is it just me or did he press the icon first on the playbook, that will account for a 300-400ms difference. Mostly noticeable on the second run. Difference which makes this video/test mostly irrelevant. Give me 1 second or more and I will be impressed. That is the anecdotal difference on launches from iPhone 4S and previous devices)
jbverschoor 14y ago
So.. how are you loading textures? As it seems to me that that's the only thing happening there. Kind of misleading title..
st3fan 14y ago
That is great. Too bad nobody owns a PlayBook :-)

13 points by wmat 14y ago

SG- 14y ago

Seems like a mis-leading title, so it launches 30% faster after you clear it from the OS cache. While "interesting" it would be better to find a benchmark that can actually stress both devices or go beyond 60FPS to see which actually is faster.

scovetta 14y ago

30% sounds like a lot, but that looked like about 300-400 milliseconds, which isn't very interesting. (That said, showing that you could port a native iOS app to RIM in X days would be an interesting metric, since the size of the App Store dwarfs the BB Store.) (RIM, are you listening? No one cares about sub-second speed increases, Flash, external SD slots, multiprocessor whiz-bang GPUs, and most of the rest of your marketing material. Make a product that amazes my parents, and you've got something. Sell to the techies, and you seal your fate.)

Sunlis 14y ago
Porting an iOS app to RIM doesn't matter anymore. The new Blackberry OS (BB 10) is going to run Android apps [0], essentially making the Blackberry App Store irrelevant (in my opinion). [0] https://developer.blackberry.com/android/ https://developer.blackberry.com/android/
- bryanlarsen 14y ago
  The Blackberry App Store isn't going to be irrelevant, since Blackberries won't be running Google Play. Android developers will have to submit their apps to the Blackberry App Store for them to be available for BB10 users to buy.

cicloid 14y ago

Is it just me or did he press the icon first on the playbook, that will account for a 300-400ms difference. Mostly noticeable on the second run. Difference which makes this video/test mostly irrelevant. Give me 1 second or more and I will be impressed. That is the anecdotal difference on launches from iPhone 4S and previous devices)

jbverschoor 14y ago

So.. how are you loading textures? As it seems to me that that's the only thing happening there. Kind of misleading title..

st3fan 14y ago

That is great. Too bad nobody owns a PlayBook :-)