MobiHand president and CEO, Steve Howard, was quoted in a Wired.com story (Research In Motion Woos BlackBerry Developers by Priya Ganapati) appearing in the Gadget Lab section of the website.  He was asked to comment on some of the announcements that were made at the BlackBerry Developer Conference that’s taking place in San Francisco this week.

The announcements probably aren’t enough to help RIM steal developers away from rival operating systems but could put the BlackBerry on a more equal footing, experts contacted by Wired.com say.

“All these things are just a matter of getting to parity,” says Steve Howard, president and CEO of MobiHand, an operator of app stores for smartphones. “They are not dramatically leapfrogging anyone else on the platform side but they are creating a more creative environment for BlackBerry developers.”

When asked about Adobe partnering with RIM which will allow application developers to use Flash platform technology and other Adobe tools such as PhotoShop to create apps for BlackBerry devices, Howard said “It’s a competitive blast at Apple. There are a huge number of developers qualified to develop in Flash and tightly integrating Flash with the BlackBerry environment injects energy into the BlackBerry platform.”

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