Wow, so you can still bribe people in some ways.<p>I must say its all very well handing out free tablets etc and offering incentives but maybe getting a few key applications ported and even paying to get them ported would be a better investment.<p>Reason I say this is having read this part "One of such programs incentivizes developers to build apps for BlackBerry 10 by guaranteeing the developers US$10,000 in revenues from the app. While the official terms and conditions for this program has not yet been released, Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations highlighted that apps that qualify for the program must be certified, paid apps built for the BlackBerry 10 and manage to earn at least US$1,000 within the first year."<p>Well It's hard not to think I could write a application - charge $10 or whatever price and get a few friends to buy that application and from the little time involved to code a "HELLO WORLD" application and get upon the blackberry market and the $1,000 friend investment of which I get a return on. Well I'd then qualify for $10,000.<p>So in effect the way they are doing this they are opening themself up to being scammed! Sorry but that is how alot will see this approach sadly. Also given the return then why not.<p>So I hope RIM rethinks this approach and does something more creative. Maybe pick a university and go in with a couple of people who know the RIM platform for developers - give a intro - hand out tablets for the student use for a few months so they can write an application and then those worthy they help promote and get onto the market offering support.<p>If they also used some of this money to have a developer help line ( no no not samaratins before you joke) but one were a developer can chat online and get questions answeared so they can speed up there application development then again they will gain.<p>Also If I was RIM CEO I'd look at large consumer markets like military and the like who are starting to embrace tablets and the like and with that at least gain some steady staple income to at least garantee some future.<p>But as this approach goes as they outlined I feel it will do them no favours.
With earlier versions of the emulator the process was:
1. edit/compile in the awful RIM IDE
2. __REBOOT THE EMULATOR__ / push new code to the device.<p>Rebooting the emulator and pushing the new code for a test took over a minute.<p>I couldn't take it. I dropped support for BB and never looked back.<p>Have they fixed this?
I wouldn't recommend developing for Blackberry. They don't care about software copyright. For example, my app has been copied and submitted to App World illegally by some guy in Dubai. So far my DMCA requests have been promptly ignored (and it's been over a year).
In the comments for the "python for iOS" link yesterday I saw BB lets you write native python. Sounds kind of fun and easy to get started. I might give this a go (although buying a BB might set me back more than I would like).
Half of the RIM appworld is just useless crap, and that's on the BlackBerry and the PlayBook. They should invest in developers — but in house. Come on, there isn't a single beautiful and stable Twitter client for the PlayBook (and the OS isn't, either). It's awkward to use a PlayBook.<p>Shameless plug: <a href="http://adrian.re/why-suits-are-killing-rim" rel="nofollow">http://adrian.re/why-suits-are-killing-rim</a> (I still believe that if it's just the big guys writing checks instead of working towards a change, money will never come back)