Apple iOS 4.3 vs Blackberry Tablet OS QNX
Apple iOS 4.3 and Blackberry QNX are tablet operating systems from Apple and Blackberry. Apple iOS 4.3 was released with Apple iPad 2 and Blackberry QNX was released with Blackberry Playbook in early 2011. Apple iOS 4.3 has lots of new features than Apple iOS 4.2.1 for iPad. So the real competition in the market is going to be with Apple iOS 4.3 and Android 3.0 and Blackberry QNX.
Apple iOS 4.3
Apple iOS 4.3 is released with Apple iPad 2 in March 2011. Apple iOS 4.3 has lots more features and functionality comparing to Apple iOS 4.2. Apple iOS 4.3 supports additional multifinger multitouch gestures and swipes. Photo Booth is a new app for iOS 4.3 which is similar to existing Mac OS X. Home shareing is another feature added in Apple iOS 4.3. Improved video streaming and AirPlay support is introduced in iOS 4.3. And there is performance improvement in Safari with new nitro JavaScript engine. Airplay is additional supporting photo slide shows and video, audio streaming from third party applications and devices.
Blackberry QNX (QNX Neutrino RTOS) Operating System
The original QNX was developed by QNX Software Systems decades ago that is largely invisible but a marvel of tightly written code. It was used to run factory assembly lines, nuclear power statiBons monitoring systems, car entertainment consoles and CISCO routers.
RIM started releasing application tools based on simpler mainstream technologies like Adobe Air, Flash and HTML5. Blackberry Tablet OS QNX SDK for adobe air allows developers to create rich and powerful application never like before.
At the same time Blackberry released WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS QNX to create applications based on web technologies such as Java, HTML5 and CSS.
Developer support is crucial in any operating systems. Apple store has more than 350,000 applications and Android Market has more than 100,000 applications whereas Blackberry only has 20,000 apps. But those Blackberry apps will not be compatible with new Blackberry QNX operating system without tweaks.
Even though Blackberry QNX is at the moment for Playbook and Tablets, it will be released soon with smartphones as well.