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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:46:02 -0800
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Subject: Re: Review of Core Platforms
From: Brian LeRoux <b@brian.io>
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Would love more #'s on Bada and BB before we get too aggressive. I
updated the Horizon section to Firefox OS. (Ubuntu is supported by way
of our Qt codebase.)

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Ken Wallis <kwallis@rim.com> wrote:
> Sounds like a plan.  I'll do some digging on what plans we will have on p=
ublishing market numbers, publically or otherwise. ;)
>
> Thanks.
> --
>
> Ken Wallis
>
> Product Manager =96 BlackBerry WebWorks
>
> Research In Motion
>
> (905) 629-4746 x14369
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Filip Maj [fil@adobe.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 5:36 PM
> To: dev@cordova.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Review of Core Platforms
>
> Certainly, if RIM can provide some % numbers of people using each OS,
> that'd be helpful! Kind of like the Android OS pie chart breakdown of
> users across different OS versions.
>
> In the past, at some point we decided to stop supporting BB OS 5 and 4.6,
> and removed those Cordova implementations. Just wanted to raise the idea
> of doing something similar for OS 7 and PlayBook once those two platforms
> get to the same level of usage.
>
> On 1/3/13 2:21 PM, "Ken Wallis" <kwallis@rim.com> wrote:
>
>>What does "schedule for removal mean"?  Perhaps we can tie removal to
>>some specific metric that we might be able to assist with?  BB7 will
>>remain a fairly large base of devices for a while, particularly in
>>emerging markets and enterprise, where I think we will continue to see a
>>large focus on web-based mobile applications.
>>
>>While I wholeheartedly support BlackBerry 10 as the primary platform for
>>new development, I would like to see support for BB7 continue while it
>>remains a large customer base.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>--
>>
>>Ken Wallis
>>
>>Product Manager =AD BlackBerry WebWorks
>>
>>Research In Motion
>>
>>(905) 629-4746 x14369
>>
>>________________________________________
>>From: Filip Maj [fil@adobe.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:44 PM
>>To: dev@cordova.apache.org
>>Subject: Review of Core Platforms
>>
>>Our CorePlatforms wiki article [1] has this:
>>
>>----
>>
>>Core: These are the main platforms supported by the Apache Cordova
>>project.
>>
>>* iOS
>>* Android
>>* BlackBerry
>>* Windows Phone
>>* Bada
>>
>>Sunset: These are platforms considered to be on their way out of general
>>consumer availability. We offer code, but not distribution of these
>>platforms.
>>
>>* Symbian
>>* webOS
>>
>>Sunrise: These are new platforms coming to Apache Cordova with some
>>development under way.
>>
>>* Tizen
>>* Qt
>>
>>Horizon: These are platforms that we hope to see supported by Apache
>>Cordova in the future!
>>
>>* B2G
>>
>>----
>>
>>
>>Some propositions + questions, all up for debate of course:
>>
>>- I'm not sure about Bada. Last I checked Bada's passing % of mobile-spec
>>is fairly weak (some features are just not doable; correct me if I'm
>>wrong). I would like to propose that a platform is eligible for "Core" if
>>they have >90% passing rate on mobile-spec. I would vote to move it into =
a
>>new "Marginal" category, along with, say, cordova-mac or cordova-qt. Also=
,
>>Bada-wac, how does this fit in?
>>- Where does the ubuntu phone fit into this?
>>- I would suggest we schedule removal of the BlackBerry 7 (java) and
>>Playbook (Air) implementations, and have our BlackBerry implementation be
>>BB10 only moving forward.
>>- The "Windows Phone" category above covers both 7 and 8? What about
>>Windows 8?
>>
>>[1] http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/PlatformSupport
>>
>>
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