SAN FRANCISCO—Research in Motion lifted the curtain Tuesday on the next-generation BBX operating system that it hopes will breathe new life into its BlackBerry smartphone business and kick-start sales of its disappointing PlayBook tablet.
The BBX operating system, with HTML 5 support, robust security, and a commitment to open standards, is a blending of RIM’s BlackBerry 7 operating system and the QNX OS that already runs on the PlayBook, the company said here at BlackBerry DevCon. RIM plans to use BBX for all of its future smartphones, mobile devices, and embedded systems.
RIM acquired QNX Software Systems last year and the smartphone maker has made it known for some time that it has been shaping the commercially targeted QNX OS for embedded systems to be its platform-of-the-future across a wide variety of devices.
"BBX is our next-gen platform," said RIM’s president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. "It combines the best of BlackBerry and the best of QNX to connect, people, content, and services."
RIM’s last major release of BlackBerry smartphones was the "largest and most successful launch in our history," according to Lazaridis. Those handsets, running the BlackBerry 7 mobile operating system, will also be the last to run anything but BBX, which RIM says combines the best features from QNX with the strongest parts of BlackBerry 7, while serving as a strong platform for both consumer and enterprise-focused smartphones, tablets, and other devices.
Lazaridis said RIM was already "transforming the tablet experience" with the BBX-based BlackBerry PlayBook and now "the whole company is aligning behind this single platform and single vision."
He said the company was "taking the power of QNX, open standards, and the power of BlackBerry" to develop a BBX platform that will be used for all of RIM’s tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, and enterprise cloud services.
RIM is dedicated to making the BBX platform accessible to developers, no matter the tools they prefer to use to "write really great native applications," Lazaridis said, calling BBX a standards-based operating system and talking up open-source development possibilities on the platform.
Lazaridis also stressed the opportunities for game developers on BBX. He presided over demos of games like Roboto and a new Lara Croft title on the BBX-powered PlayBook, which looked pretty responsive and graphically rich, at least from the cheap seats here at DevCon.
RIM also demoed the very first HTML 5-based WebGL app running on one of its devices, a cool tunneling game that really showed off the physics engine and shader effects of the application.
"This really rounds out the picture, doesn’t it?" Lazaridis beamed. "[The PlayBook] is being used on trains, planes, automobiles all over the world. We’ve added open source to be able to write really great native applications. And with HTML 5, we’re intercepting the future. Almost 75 percent of our developers say they plan to do something with HTML 5."
Those developers may get short shrift sometimes, given RIM’s recent woes, but BlackBerry developers actually make more money per app than their counterparts who develop apps for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, according to the company. BlackBerry developers make "43 percent more [money] than iOS developers and 48 percent more than Android developers," according to RIM.
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The BBX operating system, with HTML 5 support, robust security, and a commitment to open standards, is a blending of RIM’s BlackBerry 7 operating system and the QNX OS that already runs on the PlayBook, the company said here at BlackBerry DevCon. RIM plans to use BBX for all of its future smartphones, mobile devices, and embedded systems.
RIM acquired QNX Software Systems last year and the smartphone maker has made it known for some time that it has been shaping the commercially targeted QNX OS for embedded systems to be its platform-of-the-future across a wide variety of devices.
"BBX is our next-gen platform," said RIM’s president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. "It combines the best of BlackBerry and the best of QNX to connect, people, content, and services."
RIM’s last major release of BlackBerry smartphones was the "largest and most successful launch in our history," according to Lazaridis. Those handsets, running the BlackBerry 7 mobile operating system, will also be the last to run anything but BBX, which RIM says combines the best features from QNX with the strongest parts of BlackBerry 7, while serving as a strong platform for both consumer and enterprise-focused smartphones, tablets, and other devices.
Lazaridis said RIM was already "transforming the tablet experience" with the BBX-based BlackBerry PlayBook and now "the whole company is aligning behind this single platform and single vision."
He said the company was "taking the power of QNX, open standards, and the power of BlackBerry" to develop a BBX platform that will be used for all of RIM’s tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, and enterprise cloud services.
RIM is dedicated to making the BBX platform accessible to developers, no matter the tools they prefer to use to "write really great native applications," Lazaridis said, calling BBX a standards-based operating system and talking up open-source development possibilities on the platform.
Lazaridis also stressed the opportunities for game developers on BBX. He presided over demos of games like Roboto and a new Lara Croft title on the BBX-powered PlayBook, which looked pretty responsive and graphically rich, at least from the cheap seats here at DevCon.
RIM also demoed the very first HTML 5-based WebGL app running on one of its devices, a cool tunneling game that really showed off the physics engine and shader effects of the application.
"This really rounds out the picture, doesn’t it?" Lazaridis beamed. "[The PlayBook] is being used on trains, planes, automobiles all over the world. We’ve added open source to be able to write really great native applications. And with HTML 5, we’re intercepting the future. Almost 75 percent of our developers say they plan to do something with HTML 5."
Those developers may get short shrift sometimes, given RIM’s recent woes, but BlackBerry developers actually make more money per app than their counterparts who develop apps for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, according to the company. BlackBerry developers make "43 percent more [money] than iOS developers and 48 percent more than Android developers," according to RIM.
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