We recently announced a partnership with Appcelerator that includes Titanium support for our upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform, as well as an opportunity for developers to receive BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha, and Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) for free. How do you take advantage of this offer? Simple. Build a BlackBerry 10 app.

Apple's most recent announcements at WWDC about new features to be included in iOS 6 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion show their commitment to adding cloud-enabled services to their entire platform. By making features such as social integration with Facebook and photo sharing part of the operating system, and allowing accessibility through a consistent API, developers can now more easily provide a better end-user experience.

RIM clearly understands the importance of BB10 to its future and definitely understands that the key to their success lies directly on the developer community and how apps are built for the platform. I won't rehash all of the public comments about RIMs demise, you can read them for yourself.  Frankly, I believe RIM knows better than anyone what is in front of them and the speed at which they must bring BB10 to the market.  Also, given the dynamics of the mobile market, I wouldn't yet count RIM out.  I have seen a number of great innovations in the BB10 product that I think will impress users and help them differentiate against both iOS and Win8.  Of course, I think that BB10 likely already has a better UX/UI than Android, but that's for you to judge.

We are pleased to announce Appcelerator is extending our core value of cross platform native application development beyond iOS and Android, on to RIM's BlackBerry devices. This provides even more extensiblitiy of the Appcelerator Titanium mobile application devleopment platform.  This is a huge win for enterprise customers trying to mobilize their core applications on to Blackberry devices.