Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for RIM:
PlayBook OS 2.0 benchmarks better than any other mobile implementation (just point your PlayBook at HTML5Test.com), and better than every desktop browser, except Chrome 16. It also includes WebGL for accelerated 3D graphics, and with WebWorks, we can free HTML5 code from the browser, let you upload it to AppWorld, and turn that HTML5 website into a revenue generating HTML5 application. How ‘bout them apples?
Two things:
1. Make sure you’re near a Wi-Fi connection before pointing your PlayBook at any site because it doesn’t have 3G.
2. You think it’s a good idea to allow developers to sell an app based on an HTML5 Web site? That’s not a plus. People want real apps, not fake shit.
the idea of apps is to make up for the crappy browser, Safari mobile cant do anything so apps are NEEDED. my PC doesnt have an app for every website, and it doesnt need it. Playbooks browser is every web app you will ever need.
and yes, have a dig at it being wifi only. you know, like 50% of the iPads, every tablet released by Archos, Sony, Motorola,.. 3G isnt a nessesity. if you have a Phone, you have wifi hotspot. if you have a blackberry, you bridge, shy would you want to pay for yet another connection?
Yes yes, PlayBook’s browser is so much better than the iPad’s, RIM really did a great job with their built-from-scratch rendering agent and—oh, wait…
Eagerly awaiting the HTML5 port of GarageBand that doesn’t require any web access at all to run. Should be sweet!
I saw this last week when Charlie Kindel tweeted the link (old ‘softies stick together). It just made me laugh. I thought that at the end it should have “and that naked Emperor is fully-clothed.” This post, like EVERYTHING positive RIM has said over the last 4 years is in the future tense. What they really need to do is shut up, make something good, and then ship it. Stop telling us how great your stuff will be, and SHOW US the finished products.
Of course, that would require that they actually execute, and I now believe that RIM is incapable of that.
@Jim – you got his job title wrong: the correct one is “Vice President of Developer Promises”.
Is it still amateur hour?
Best foot in mouth campaign of 2011.
Also, it’s not true.
1) HTML5Test is not a benchmarking site. It’s not testing performance, it’s testing compliance.
2) PlayBook 2.0’s compliance score of 329 is indeed higher than all current tablet browsers, but it’s tied with Opera 11.6 and behind both Firefox 10 and Chrome 16 on the desktop. And if we’re counting stuff that doesn’t exist yet, it’s behind Chrome Beta on Android 4 for tablets.
Can this guy from RIM actually read?
PlayBook is becoming one hell of a machine. Eagerly awaiting OS2
“People want real apps, not fake shit.”
Bullshit. People want good apps. They don’t know or care about anything besides that. If you can provide a good app using HTML5, you will, and on iOS you’ll ship it with a UIWebView for a thin candy shell and nobody will even notice.
Are these guys from The Loop serious people?
Hell no. What would make you think that?
Could you point me towards some of these hypothetical “good HTML5 smartphone apps”?