Up until a few hours ago, we were hopeful that RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook was going to live up to the hype. Though we were honestly preparing for the worst. However, RIM has turned the tide with an announcement today confirming many weeks of speculation — the BlackBerry PlayBook will run Android applications.
In order to get Android apps on your PlayBook, you’ll of course start out at BlackBerry App World. From there, the “App Player” is where all the cross-platform magic will happen. Finally, RIM also announced that the native PlayBook SDK will be available soon, allowing C/C++ application creation.
With a much larger potential app library to tap in to, is RIM’s PlayBook pulling a quick one from behind? Or are certain things like lack of native email keeping you at bay?
