Montag, 17. Mai 2010

BlackBerry Developer Group Berlin founded

We just launched to offical BlackBerry Developer Group for the region of Berlin.

We start with a facebook group but we will expand it:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Berlin-BlackBerry-Developers/
We are planning regular meetings to talk about BlackBerry development.
Join us now! :)

Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2010

WES is over. What's left?

No big news.
Some ui polish called 6.0
Some device polish (they made a big deal out of a white Bold).

BESExpress and the mobile voice system where the biggest topics.

From a developer perspective they announced some APIs, no big deals either. The most interesting payment API is still far away.

SuperApp was the big program they try to force developers into. My understanding of the idea is: show us apps that won't be possible with iPhone (always one, deeply integrated with native apps...).

For their development tools they still don't have Windows7 support but keep talking about MacOS. They seem so busy with themselves there seems to be no big plans for real platform changes: hot topics from devcon like shared libraries, unit testing or even language changes aren't there anymore or just too far away to even talk about it.
In addition: With HP announcing the aquisition of Palm just one day after having a keynote presentation with RIM must have been quite embarissing for BlackBerry.

My 5th WES was the most disappointing one. It's kinda scary: I'm flighing home and they did not convince me that Blackberry is the coolest, best device on earth.