The Engadget Interview: Ryan Bidan, BlackBerry PlayBook senior product manager

RIM held a little PlayBook party here in New York yesterday, giving us a chance to hang out with Ryan Bidan, the company’s senior product manager for the seven-inch tablet. In addition to chatting with us about battery life, connectivity, and pricing, Ryan clarified the PlayBook’s app development model — athough devs can choose to work with native code, Java, Adobe Air, and HTML5 / WebWorks, the idea is for the ultimate user experience to be seamless, and RIM is considering offering standard UI widgets for each environment. We also had to ask about those swirling rumors of Android support , and while we commend Ryan for his practiced non-answer, we can’t help but feel we detected a hint of a smile on his face. Or was that just another tray of snacks going past? Check the video and decide for yourself. The Engadget Interview: Ryan Bidan, BlackBerry PlayBook senior product manager originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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