RIM's Jim Balsillie says 'you don't need an app for the web,' rejects Apple's appification of the internet

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It's no secret that RIM doesn't exactly agree with Steve Jobs'
characterization of the company's prospects, and Jim Balsillie has
some more to say on the Apple vs. RIM front, particularly where it
comes to apps. It's hard to imagine RIM catching up with Apple's
300,000+ apps, but Jim doesn't think that's the point: "We believe
that you can bring the mobile to the Web but you don't need to go
through some kind of control point of an SDK, and that's the core part
of our message." The statement was made at the Web 2.0 Summit a couple
days ago, and on further prompting Jim made it clear he rejects
Apple's "appification" of the web. RIM's strategy is obviously riding
on highly portable Adobe AIR apps and Flash support in the browser
(much like Microsoft's Silverlight app strategy for Windows Phone 7),
and we look forward to seeing just how well that playbook plays out in
the PlayBook. Of course, "there's not an app for that, but our browser
is fully capable of performing that functionality" isn't quite so
catchy...