With BB10, RIM Tries To Break Out of the 'Mobile Ecosystem' Model

Alt-kun writes "This past week has seen a couple of interesting articles about Research In Motion's strategic plans for BlackBerry 10. The Globe and Mail thinks that by pushing HTML5 for app development, they want to make mobile applications platform-neutral, which would let them sell devices purely on the strength of the hardware and OS, rather than on the ecosystem. And the Guelph Mercury notes that they also plan to push BB10 as the basis for a whole range of mobile and embedded devices, not just phones and tablets. One example shown off at the recent developer conference was a Porsche with a BlackBerry entertainment system."

Re:The real question

[Karlt1]

It wasn't Apple back peddling it was developers demanding native access. The same as developers for Palm demanding native APIs. Good luck with any halfway decent game running on HTML.

So will Mozilla and Google complain that they can't write a browser for RIM?

Re:The real question

[sootman]

> So will Mozilla and Google complain that they
> can't write a browser for RIM?

No problem there--they can just write a browser in HTML5. :-)