{"id":47562,"date":"2012-04-11T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=47562"},"modified":"2012-04-11T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:18:22","slug":"rim-clarifies-app-side-loading-and-piracy-on-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/47562-rim-clarifies-app-side-loading-and-piracy-on-playbook.html","title":{"rendered":"RIM clarifies app side-loading and piracy on Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Alec Saunders\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/401341-Alec-Saunders\">Alec Saunders<\/a>, vice president of developer relations at <a title=\"RIM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313525-Research-in-Motion-%28RIM%29\">RIM<\/a>, has clarified a tweet he posted, saying that the company will not remove side-loading of applications on the <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> PlayBook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not getting rid of side-loading on the BlackBerry PlayBook OS or in BlackBerry 10,\u201d said Saunders in a blog post on the BlackBerry dev blog.<\/p>\n<p>This was in reply to <a title=\"RIM restricts PlayBook to avoid \u201cchaotic cesspool\u201d of Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/47416-rim-restricts-playbook-to-avoid-chaotic-cesspool-of-android.html\">media reports<\/a> on his earlier tweet that RIM would be removing side-loading for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Side-loading allows users to load applications onto the PlayBook tablet without having to download them from the BlackBerry App World.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders continued,<strong> \u201c<\/strong>Side-loading is a developer feature. It exists so that developers can load their apps onto their own devices to test. It\u2019s there so developers can send a beta release to their testing community for review. It is definitely not there for some people to side-load a pirated app.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of removing side-loading, RIM will introduce a feature that implements application encryption instead according to the <a title=\"BlackBerry dev blog\" href=\"http:\/\/devblog.blackberry.com\/2012\/04\/side-loading-and-piracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research in Motion has clarified its stance on side-loading applications on the BlackBerry PlayBook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8651,97,99,10570],"class_list":["post-47562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-alec-saunders","tag-blackberry","tag-rim","tag-side-loading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47566,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47562\/revisions\/47566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}