Android on PlayBook: RIM fumbles the pass to developers

Android implementation on QNX-based tablet will cut off huge numbers of potential apps from running on it. In which case, why should Android developers bother targeting it?

Wednesday was not a good day for RIM and its PlayBook.
For some time, developers have been awaiting with a degree of modest interest to learn more about the Android support on the device. When announced, it appeared that RIM would get around the problem that no one was fussed about writing native apps for the QNX operating system the PlayBook runs on by allowing Android apps to run on the device.
Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds? The device might start to get some traction by having Android support. As we've known since Microsoft first trounced Apple in the personal computer market back in the DOS days, it's the ecosystem, stupid. Without developers having any interest in building native apps for QNX, much as there'd been little interest in writing apps for native BlackBerry OS, it's unlikely anyone would seek out and buy a PlayBook device – a point which has been backed up with its poor sales and massive backlog.

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