Big Surprise: RIM’s PlayBook Tablet QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS in Phones

Surreal! Headline: <i>Big Surprise: RIM’s PlayBook Tablet QNX OS Will Replace BlackBerry OS in Phones</i><p>First paragraph: <i>Surprising no one, a Research in Motion vice president confirmed this morning that the fancy new QNX operating system in its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will eventually replace the traditional BlackBerry OS in its smartphone</i>

I'm sorry for whinging without adding much substance to the article analysis, but I wish that companies like RIM would try to copy Apple's "cone of silence" rather than (or in addition to) copying their product's superficial appearances.<p>When Apple brought out Intel macs, the announcement was "We're running on Intel NOW." When they brought out the iPhone, the announcement was "It's running a cousin of OS X, NOW."<p>With RIM, I'm getting "There will be a tablet _Real Soon Now_." and "We will run everything on QNX _eventually_." If they can't ship it today, is there a prototype they can show? If there isn't a prototype, is there an SDK with an emulator so that developers can get started?<p>No?<p>This is dreadful, it's like a guy on his back in MMA getting his face punched in, and he's talking about how he's going to hit the weights and beat his opponent up in the rematch.

I don't know if and when QNX will be used on the phones, but I think that this can be a big win for developers that can have access to an high quality kernel and a serious SDK:<p>From the interview to Dan Dodge, co-founder and CEO of QNX Software Systems: <a href="http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/09/blackberry-tablet-os/" rel="nofollow">http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/09/blackberry-tablet-os/</a><p><i>For applications that require access to the native OS environment, developers can develop and port C/C++ applications and also take advantage of the QNX® Momentics® Tool Suite, which is based on the Eclipse standard.</i>