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April 28, 2011 02:28 PM

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Corinne

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Joined: 02/03/2011

I received this message about a month after I emailed about the app not working on my blackberry.

Pretty dissappointing. The "new development environment" is only for the playbook, so what about people who don't have playbooks? I do, but that's not the point. The app isn't even available for download now.

[Support Person's Name 2], Apr-26 04:10 am (PDT):
Hello Corinne,
Thanks for being patient since you last wrote in. Over the last few months our engineers have been working on a revised Blackberry app to resolve the open music and video streaming issues.
There are several development environments for Blackberry, each required for a different handset, and each behaving quite differently and with their own sets of problems, especially when dealing with streaming media. Recently, RIM made an announcement about a new development environment, specifically for the PlayBook, but with the expectation that this will then be pushed down to the various handsets. This environment is promised to be much more consistent, and with designed support for reliable music and video streaming. For this reasons, we have stopped working on the existing application and will wait until the new development environment is available.
Please know that we are viewing mobile applications very seriously, and we need to make sure that any release that we put out is at a high standard, and works across the supported handsets. We will be doing this for Blackberry as soon as we feel like there is a stable development environment that allows us to develop with consistency, reliability, and of course with the full music and video streaming capabilities that Pogoplug provides.
Notice that this ticket will be closed, and we will make updates available on our forum when any updates. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any other assistance or support for your Pogoplug device.
Thank you again for your patience.
Kind Regards
-[Support Person's Name 2]


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[Support Person's Name 1], Mar-21 03:24 pm (PDT):
Hi Corinne,

ETA: yet =/= now.

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May 9, 2011 3:06 AM

Jups got the same message also. Just throw your Blackberry in the bin if you wan't to use Pogoplug. Or throw your Pogoplug in the bin.

Just buy a new Blackberry after the playbook comes out. Then the development environments will be ready. Only then.

But then again why did they remove the complete Blackberry App from there site? Sillent death for BB Users.

May 11, 2011 11:23 PM

I thought the whole point of the PogoPlug and PogoPlug Video was that the video was supposed to playable directly from the browser either through Flash or HTML5.

Well, the new Playbook, which I did receive at the recent BlackberryWorld Conference has FULLY Functional and reliable FLASH support and I've yet to meet an HTML5 site it couldn't render. In fact, I'd put this browser on par with Chrome on the PC. BUT, when I tried to play a video via the my.pogoplug.com interface, it crashed the browser application.

Regardless of whether they are planning on building an app for the Playbook or not, the streaming video should still work in the browser itself, or at the very least kick back an error. Amazon streaming video works fine. Hulu worked fine till it was blocked. Netflix is not supporting it yet. I'm not sure if this is due to the rendering engine within the Playbook browser or the Pogoplug website. But instead of crashing the browser, can we at least get an error?

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