Thursday, August 22, 2013

BlackBerry puts quantity over quality, lets one developer own a third of its app store


"BlackBerry has a thriving ecosystem with BlackBerry 10." That's what CEO Thorsten Heins said this May at a developer conference before revealing that users had a choice of 120,000 apps from its still-young app market, BlackBerry World. The problem is that over a third of those apps come from a single developer. Yes, a Hong Kong-based company called S4BB has published just under 47,000 apps to BlackBerry World since launch. That's not a good sign of a "thriving ecosystem."


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/22/4648730/blackberry-lets-developer-submit-a-third-of-apps

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