[gui-talk] so much for RIM Playbook accessibility

[Mike Arrigo]

This is unfortunate, however, I don't think this device is going to sell much, RIM is losing market share fast, so at least we're not missing all that much.
On Sep 30, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Hoffman, Allen wrote:

> 
> RIM Changes Stance On PlayBook's Android Support
> <http://slashdot.org/story/11/09/29/2233210/rim-changes-stance-on-playbo
> oks-android-support>  101 
> 
> Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 29, @07:50PM 
> from the we-changed-our-mind dept. 
> hypnosec writes "It hasn't been long since the BlackBerry maker Research
> In Motion announced that its QNX based tablet device, the PlayBook, will
> be supporting Android implementation on it. However, it has been
> revealed now that a sizable portion of Android apps will be cut off
> <http://www.itproportal.com/2011/09/29/rim-changes-stance-playbooks-andr
> oid-support/#ixzz1ZM1HBzzv>  from running on the moderately successful
> tablet device. The news thus leads us to a situation where Android
> developers might not be interested anymore in coming up with new apps
> for the QNX powered gadget. The Android apps that won't be working in
> the PlayBook include Android Live Wallpapers; apps that contain more
> than one activity tied to the launcher, the Android text-to-speech
> engine, and Android cloud-to-device messaging service, amongst a few
> others."
> 
> OK, no Text-to-Speech for the inaccessible thing anyway.
> Should have put out press release on this one too!
> 
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