Bad news BlackBerry fans, the neato browser Skyfire said it is pausing its work on Research In Motion’s platform in order to focus on Android.
Why? Despite RIM having a sizable U.S. market share, Skyfire said the development platform is just not up to snuff.
“The Blackberry developer environment is not as favorable for cutting-edge application development,” Skyfire said on its blog. “The APIs are fragmented and inconsistent, and the Java virtual machine Blackberry requires is not efficient. While Blackberry users are desperate for a better browser – we know, and we hear them – we only want to bring out something that meets our high standards and is truly great.”
The company is hard at work creating a version for Google’s little green robot and its alpha program has already been swamped with interest. We’re working our connections to get a look at this and we should have something relatively soon. I can’t wait for some good old-fashioned Hulu streaming on my Motorola Droid.
BlackBerry users can take solace that they will soon have a revamped browser from RIM itself shortly. This Webkit-based browser should finally give RIM users a browser that’s capable of handling even the roughest Javascript, AJAX, or HTML5. Check out the video below for a demo of RIM’s new browser.
[Via Skyfire]