RIM sponsoring 50 meetups nationwide to woo Android devs to BlackBerry Playbook

What's all this, then? Research in Motion -- aka BlackBerry-maker RIM -- is sponsoring 50 meetups nationwide to help woo Android developers in to making their apps available on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The PlayBook, as you'll recall, has some sort of witchery that allows Android apps to run sandboxed within the QNX OS.

Going to developers directly is a must for RIM in this case. While everybody crows that the PlayBook runs Android apps, it's not as if it has access to the Android Market and its hundreds of thousands of applications. So each dev will have to be won independently.

Will this work in any real numbers? We'll just have to see.

Source: Meetup; via BerryReview, CrackBerry

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/E2nNh_zTY-g/rim-sponsoring-50-meetups-nationwide-woo-android-devs-blackberry-playbook

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