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BlackBerry welcomes Android apps
The company's bragging on how easily Android apps can be ported to the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. This might have been exciting news back when the PlayBook was just being released. If Android support had been available from day one, it might have mattered. But since then, the PlayBook has proven a dismal flop, and nobody cares whether it's Android-compatible or not. Sorry, guys.
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Hiawatha Bray
Hiawatha is a business reporter and columnist covering the high-tech industry for the Boston Globe business section. His weekly Tech Lab gadgets and software reviews appear in the Globe every Thursday.
