BlackBerry App World:
This web page uses ActiveX controls that work only in Microsoft Internet Explorer. To ensure that BlackBerry App World is correctly downloaded to your BlackBerry, this site is not designed to work with any other Internet browsers. If you cannot use Internet Explorer, you may be able to download the software directly to your BlackBerry smartphone.
So there’s this new thing called HTML5…
They dug their grave, now they’re laying down in it and attempting to cover themselves up, simultaneously being the guy playing the world’s smallest violin.
That’s alright. I think Apple makes a phone that’s compatible with the Mac—and Windows. If only I could remember what it’s called… it’s such a niche product. Lulz‽
One declining technology snuggling up to another. Pathetic.
Yeah, it’s been like this for a while. I have some BlackBerry devices (running OS 6) that I have to test web page compatibility with our mobile web applications. The devices are practically unusable because they are not activated on a service plan — can’t use most of the built-in social apps, nor their app world because I don’t have cell service enabled. And because I’m on a Mac, I can’t use their web site to buy/install apps either.
In related news, Playbook apps will only be able to be written in Visual Basic.
Seriously, ActiveX controls were a bad idea in 1996. Microsoft of 2011 would love to depreciate support for them, but Adobe Reader and a handful of Business Apps that rely on IE6 would cease to work.
It is not just Mac users. It sometimes throws that message even when you use Internet explorer on a PC. That was one of the reasons I finally gave up on RIM and switched o the iPhone and eventually even the PC’s will be replaced by Apple Macs.
No sweat. I’ve got BootCamp (WinXP) and VMWare Fusion (Win7) on my Macs, so a little stumbling block like that means nothing when you own a Mac. Macs are very versatile when you’ve got the know-how and a little extra cash.
That could be just a bad .net website developer, and not a corporate strategy to go against Mac users.. Being compliant with industry standards and testing across several browsers (platforms) is part of any website developer toolkit.
It’s almost as though they prefer to be as functional as a poorly-funded federal agency.
And if something as simple as access to the site is run that poorly, what’s developing for the platform going to be like?
And the comedy continues…
if RIM didn’t want MAC users why would they developer their Dekstop Manager for the MAC?
lol…the day that happens is the same day hell will freeze over.