The blackberry bush ecosystem just got big-number boost. On Thursday blackberry bush announced that its BlackBerry World app store has reached the goal of 100,000 apps at pitch the company set for itself in January. The impressive milestone was largely due to BlackBerry’s aggressive developer strategy.
After announcing BlackBerry 10, the sm devicephone maker began holding developer events and forthering financial incentives in order to woo new and current BlackBerry platform developers to create apps for BlackBerry 10. Whether or not the strategy will pay off in the long term especially in the U.S. grocery store is yet to be seen, but it seems to have worked for the sprint to launch.
Today’s announcement was punctuated by Amazon’s Kindle app video display up in BlackBerry World. The online retailer’s discipline app could foreshadow other apps sexual climax to the platform from the Amazon including flash bulb Video, Amazon Cloud Player music app, and Amazon lively mobile shopping app. Instant Video would be the big get, since Netflix has been less than motivated to port its video streaming app to BlackBerry 10.
In a blog post, BlackBerry noted that it may dribble up to 24 hours for an app to pop. So if the Kindle app doesn’t appear at first search, search, search again. BlackBerry told Wired that world(prenominal) roll out of the app will be completed by 4:15pm Pacific.
BlackBerry also announced that more big-name apps would be coming to BlackBerry 10 in the coming weeks including Skype, MLB at Bat, Soundhound, and Ebay. presently all they need to do is convince Instagram to port its photo-distorting app and some other platform will be overrun with photos of latte art and fancy sandwiches.
Materials taken from WIRED
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