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1. NYC here.
2. Still waiting for the NY date :(
3. And for those wondering - yes, BBSSH is coming for the pb. I finally have time to resume working on it - I'll post more info soon.
4. In fact there are *three* free OpenSudoku ports in app world. Checking them out now, but so far they seem to be identical - just submitted by different devs, doubtless to 'earn' a playbook each ;) (edit) oops, I see John beat me to it.
5. Promising but still empty. Will I be able to interact with email, text, contacts, calendar and BBM the same way I can via the extended j2me API today? Currently I can't. Will I have the same extensive API access to notifcations, alerts, and related settings? Will I be able to make apps/app stubs that process in the background without a UI? Will I be able to access bluetooth (something promised for the NDK but still not delievered) at the minimum of the same level that j2me offers? Will there be universal search, and an API exposed that allows what we can do on the smartphone today via Java? The problem here is that their silence makes it difficult to plan for future development. There is practically no *specific* information available as to how, when or if BB10 will achieve feature parity. A bullet point telling me that "super app" integration is coming without giving any details (and I"ve barely touched on the capabilities of the Java SDK above) isn't reassuring; as a developer it sends me the message that internally they're not sure quite how they're going to get there, and are hesitating to commit to something they may not be able to deliver on. This doesn't get into the thousands of past hours of development work I lose by having to rewrite my java app using native code: I understand sometimes technologies need to change in a drastic way for the good of the platform -- I just want to know that those drastic changes aren't going to cost me (and other makers of integrated apps) functionality as well as development hours. Come to think of it, I sense a new berryreview blog post on this very subject in my near future ;)
6. That won't happen until/unless netflix deigns to provide a native netflix app for the pb.
7. The problem I have with this is the same I have with any video "purchase" service that strongly limits access to your content, and in the fine print tells you that you dodon't actually own anything (Sony's agreement specifically says that the word "own" is used in a marketing context, haven't read all of RIM's/Rovi's yet). In fact, in most cases you're agreeing to let them revoke access to content you "purchased" at any time. I just don't understand what draws people to this? And at this rather high prices -- pretty much the same prices as far less restricted counterparts. So: those of you who do use this service (or similar) I'd love to hear some of your reasons for doing so - because I'm not understanding so far. RIM's service is just as restrictive and over-priced as the next guy's, so what's the appeal?
8. I kind of wonder why RIM didn't provide this themselves? It's a part of the sample apps on their github repo, it just needed to be built and submitted. (I hope someone didn't get a free PB out of this one ;)
9. Q: Is there universal search or any form of search for email, contacts, calendar on the PlayBook? A: Apps have in-app search capabilities. Message allows flexible search such as recipients, received, sent, unread, etc. Contacts for favorites, video chat contacts and search by name. Translation: no. Why can't they just come out and say it though? ;) The other thing I would like to get answers too is feature parity: when will the NDK, WebWorks, and AIR SDKs provide the ability to make integrated applications like we can under the Java OSes? With release around the corner (less than a year), we simply are not able to write the same kind of applications that we can currently write for the smartphones.
10. All they show us are variations on the same animated controls, and how well their physics engine works. I am wondering how much of this is an actual framework, and how much is eye candy that will get in the way of a functional, usable app... Don't get me wrong, the physics engine stuff does look very showy, but I'm really looking for details on how to build an app in this framework WITHOUT animated widgets and images that bounce all over the screen. On the other hand, we do have QT...

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