[ale] OT: Programming guidance for black berry

[J B]

On 8/1/06, Drag0n <dragon at atlantacon.org> wrote:
> You may be out of luck there. I work for a company that develops for
> smart phones and they have had dealings with RIM. RIM does not like to
> have anything outside of their control. We have heard of companies
> developing for the Blackberry get acquired just so they can keep control
> of the development.

Eh? RIM is developer-friendly, from what I can tell, and even offer a
number of developer tools (including a Java developer toolkit), found
here:

http://www.blackberry.com/developers/started/tools.shtml

For what it's worth, I've also seen many 3rd-party apps developered for the BB.

John