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"We are in conversations with Hulu to bring the Hulu Plus subscription service to BlackBerry PlayBook users," a RIM spokesperson said in a statement. Hulu has yet to comment.
Hulu blocked the BlackBerry PlayBook just one day after the device was officially released. Hulu blocks pretty much every mobile device that is ever released, and as we argued last week, the company should not do this unless it already offers Hulu Plus on said devices.
We also wondered last week whether RIM should bother to strike a deal with Hulu, given alternatives like Netflix, but it looks like the Canadian company believes so. Hulu will likely only be interested in putting Hulu Plus on the BlackBerry PlayBook if the device sells well, and right now it's too early to make that call. RIM could of course convince Hulu with an incentive.
If RIM gets its way, the BlackBerry PlayBook will join a decently long list of Hulu Plus supported platforms: Apple's iOS 4 devices, Sony's PlayStation 3, the Roku Streaming Player, WD TV Media Player, as well as Blu-ray-linked television made by Samsung, Sony, and Vizio. BlackBerry Tablet OS is QNX-based. It follows that Hulu Plus may one day find its way onto BlackBerry phones, given that BlackBerry OS will be replaced by QNX as of BlackBerry 7.
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This will be good news for people that use Hulu, lot of people were upset when they blocked the PlayBook.
Although did give me a chance to create an app that allows Hulu to be used on the BlackBerry, waiting for it to be accepted now
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AnonymousSurfer said:
I don't know why they even bother, the blackberry tablet is gonna be shit, just like it's phones. They don't have enough depth in their OS and they need to allow the users to do more than just look at email and text...
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yRaz said:
Anonymoussurfer said:I don't know why they even bother, the blackberry tablet is gonna be shit, just like it's phones. They don't have enough depth in their OS and they need to allow the users to do more than just look at email and text...
Have you ever used a blackberry? I recently purchased a Windows phone and find myself missing some of my BB features. But I guess what you mean by "do more" is play angry birds and watch youtube.
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Have you ever used a blackberry? I recently purchased a Windows phone and find myself missing some of my BB features. But I guess what you mean by "do more" is play angry birds and watch youtube.
Exactly. Stuff that REAL smartphones are supposed to do.
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spydercanopus said:
Windows 7 tablets for the win.
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