Can RIM afford to make developers wait for BB10?  The paucity of
the development tools for the BlackBerry platform let it down
compared to its competitors. The improved tools for BB10 might
be too late Research In Motion has conceded its BlackBerry
smartphones cannot compete with iPhone and Android Developing
software for BlackBerrys is a job for masochists. Photograph:
Scott Olson/Getty  You know how sometimes you can cut the head
off a chicken and it keeps running around the farmyard seemingly
oblivious to the fact for years before it dies? The BB10
announcement at BlackBerry World this week reminds me of that
situation. That chicken just won't die.   Most developers are
familiar with Steve Ballmer's fantabulous "Developers,
developers, developers!" outburst from an internal Microsoft
event in 2000. It seems that RIM's management missed that memo,
because if they want any hope at all of avoiding having to fund
themselves using Kickstarter then developers, developers, and
more developers are what they need.