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Finally, there’s been whatever commendation on a very essential PlayBook gossip that’s been around for months now. RIM has officially stated that it module unstoppered up the PlayBook for BlackBerry Java and Android-based applications â€" but of course, it can’t be quite that simple. In a press release, RIM explains that the Android Market itself won’t be practical on the PlayBook. Users module exclusive be healthy to access Android apps via BlackBerry App World. And there’s added catch: Only specific Android apps module run on the tablet. For now, the PlayBook module exclusive hold Android 2.3 apps.

“Developers module simply repackage, cipher clew and accede their BlackBerry Java and Android apps to BlackBerry App World. Once approved, the apps module be diffuse finished BlackBerry App World, providing a newborn possibleness for many developers to reach BlackBerry PlayBook users.”

It’s definitely a takeover for the PlayBook: A start that includes a wholesome turn of apps is always beneficial, and attachment itself to the ingrained Android ecosystem doesn’t hurt. The QNX OS BlackBerry has chosen to ingest for PlayBook doesn’t hit the recognition Google’s ambulatory OS does, not to mention the sheer number of applications. It also makes the tablet more captivating to developers. While there’s been increasing interest in creating PlayBook applications, it doesn’t hit the vantage Android does, and today developers module be healthy to mart their programs to both easily due to what RIM describes as “a high honor of API compatibility.”

RIM revealed in its earnings call (via BBC) today that shares fell 12 percent, locution the sagging numbers were caused by “investments in the future.” But good news, as RIM CEO Jim Balsillie also revealed there are “many joint clients that hit approached us about, you know, each wanting tens of thousands, individual tens of thousands of PlayBooks.” The PlayBook launches Apr 19.