Applications for BlackBerry Playbook can be written on Qt

Apparently, Research in Motion is extremely reluctant to repeat the sad fate of tablets on webOS and therefore takes very active steps to popularize their devices. So, quite recently, RIM in the person of its top management announced that all developers who wish to place their application in the BlackBerry App World market until February 13 will receive a 16 GB model of the BlackBerry PlayBook free of charge.



Now, at the BlackBerry Developers Developers Conference in Amsterdam today, DevCon , vice president of RIM developers, Alec Saunders announced that the BlackBerry Playbook will support applications developed on the popular Qt cross-platform framework under Nokia .

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Thus, taking into account the increased activity of RIM in the promotion of its devices and the introduction of a very popular framework for its development ecosystem (a curious question about the compatibility of existing Qt applications with BlackBerry), we can assume that this will lead to the emergence of another impressive player in the market mobile applications and, perhaps, Android and iOS will have to make room.



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