[gui-talk] so much for RIM Playbook accessibility

[Hoffman, Allen]

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!