Adobe is holding a MAX conference, and somehow RIM was there as a hardware partner. This was well linked to their latest tablet, the PlayBook, which has ‘out-of-the-box’ Flash and Air support. Adobe and RIM have announced availability today of an Air SDK targeting the PlayBook’s QNX-based platform with deep hardware integration, giving devs plenty of ramp-up time considering that the tablet won’t be available until early next year. Kobo was among the companies on-hand to talk about the sheer awesomeness of the dev environment, and the general attitude toward the PlayBook’s ease of development seems to be a positive one. “That’s the real YouTube site, not an app”. Take that, Apple. (but frankly speaking, having a dedicated YouTube app is much more convenient.)

Somehow RIM also has noticed how unhappy developers are with their BlackBerry OS platform, and has also included a new strategy to woo back developers to RIM’s BlackBerry Tablet OS platform. Apparently, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis stated that devs who get PlayBook apps approved into App World will get a free PlayBook. Not bad!

SOURCE via Yahoo! News