A big question we've had since RIM first announced that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would be able to run some Android applications was "Why?" Another question has been "Would a developer really want to?"
We're getting a little insight into that courtesy of pals at CrackBerry. The tl;dr version:
This seems to be a short term solution for a long term problem. For years RIM rested on their laurels doing very little to woo new developers or even keep their existing ones happy and it finally caught up with them and the Android solution seems to be more about getting some quick positive publicity rather than solving the real problem.
Sounds about right to us. Check out the whole piece at the link below.
Read: To build or to port? A developer's thoughts about
the Android App Player on BlackBerry
