Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Android apps on the PlayBook can keep their built-in ads, won't support RIM ads

Let's face it: a free PlayBook is nice, but it's not enough. If Android developers are to be persuaded to give up soccer practice and hot dates to stay home and re-package their apps for PlayBook OS 2.0, then they're going to need some advertising income too. Which is why a report over the weekend, claiming that ported apps would not support mobile ads, caused no end of fuss. Fortunately, it was the result of some kind of miscommunication and RIM quickly clarified that the updated PlayBook OS would support the ad services that come built into Android apps, but wouldn't support RIM's own BlackBerry ad services in that context. So what's it to be, the shin guards, the cologne, or the keyboard?

Android apps on the PlayBook can keep their built-in ads, won't support RIM ads originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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