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Re: Blackberry inks deal with Amazon to permit Android apps

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On 2014-06-19, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> Good news for people who still like Blackberry, like me:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/18/blackberry_inks_deal_with_amazon_to_get_android_apps_on_its_mobes/
>
> //-- clip
> Blackberry has reached a licensing agreement with Amazon to allow
> BlackBerry users access to the Amazon Appstore.
>  
> Amazon's store won't replace the BlackBerry World store and it won't
> offer native BlackBerry apps. Rather, it will make available the more
> than 200,000 Android apps Amazon offers to BlackBerry 10 users as
> direct downloads.
>
> BlackBerry fans have been abuzz about the platform's its Android
> compatibility layer since late last year and the company began rolling
> it out as part of an official OS update in January. But BlackBerry
> itself hasn't exactly been crowing about it; in fact, the blog post
> announcing the OS release that included it didn't even mention it.
> //-- clip
>
> This is awesome news.  I've got a bold 9900 and still love it.

I assume you realise that this only applies to BB10 devices?

> This might be the
> missing link for people like me - an easy way to run Android apps on
> Blackberry hardware 

Only if you buy a Z10, Z30 or Q10.

> without simply Blackberry ditching its OS and using
> Android (which wouldn't solve the menu-flow problem).

Oh, and my Z10 (which I rather like), won't run Android software, even though
it's supposed to. Sigh.

(BTW, BB are also closing the Video & Music parts of their App Store as part
of this. I assume that's what Amazon are getting out of it ...)


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Blackberry inks deal with Amazon to permit Android apps RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-19 12:57 +0000
  Re: Blackberry inks deal with Amazon to permit Android apps Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-19 13:19 +0000
    Re: Blackberry inks deal with Amazon to permit Android apps RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-19 16:12 +0000

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