Comments on: How RIM Can Host BlackBerry DevCon 2012 Without Having Any News Whatsover

By: Peter Hansen

Peter Hansen — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:01:00 +0000

I think you missed my subtle point. You stated that “it’s not clear” whether RIM was holding a DevCon and my answer was, in effect, “there *is* a DevCon.. it’s just changed location and name”. That’s all… nothing more, and now you’ve agreed that “it’s still DevCon”, so I don’t know why you ever said it wasn’t clear in the first place.

By: Kyle McInnes

Kyle McInnes — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Ok.

By: Kyle McInnes

Kyle McInnes — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:17:00 +0000

You’re placing way too much value on a name and location. It doesn’t matter that it’s called Jam, it’s still DevCon. Also, the location change has no bearing whatsoever on this discussion.

The fact remains that RIM is holding “BlackBerry Jam” and there’s no news. There’s not much reason for developers to travel all the way to San Jose to learn about things they could have learned about on a webinar.

So I’m suggesting a hackathon at BlackBerry Jam. Apparently RIM agrees with me and they’re throwing one.

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By: Ak Postbox

Ak Postbox — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:26:00 +0000

They have already said that there won’t be a conference but a complete world tour. Who made u a reporter

By: Dmatthews

Dmatthews — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:39:00 +0000

Hey Kyle…
Please stop using the word “then” when you should use “than”.

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By: Kyle McInnes

Kyle McInnes — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Seriously? You can’t center a conference around some APIs. That’s not going to convince people to spend $1000 on a ticket plus $2000 in airfare and accommodation. New APIs is a webinar. Not a conference.

By: Peter Hansen

Peter Hansen — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:23:00 +0000

A big “huh?!” from me. Did you miss http://www.blackberryjamconference.com/ ?

It answers the initial (implied) question rather clearly: no, there will not be a “DevCon” in San Francisco this year, for two reasons. 1. It will be called BlackBerry Jam Americas. 2. It will be in San Jose, not San Francisco.

Or are you just speculating wildly that they’ll have some reason to cancel it? That’s just plain silly.

By: Jon Webb

Jon Webb — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:10:00 +0000

By that time there should be loads of new BB10 API’s for developers to get into. A developer conference in October/November should do just fine.