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BlackBerry App World has over 70,000 apps

By on March 31, 2012 at 10:54am in Mobile News


The surge in apps within RIM’s BlackBerry App World could have been the recent promotion that gave developers a free 16GB PlayBook for every new app they submitted. This saw over over 1,500 app submissions and over 6,600 new developers.

Last month RIM stated the BlackBerry App World had over 60,000 apps, saw over 174 million apps downloaded every month, 6 million app downloads per day, over 2 billion app downloads to date, plus that it’s available in 164 markets around the world. Yesterday RIM’s Developer Relations team held a HTML5 hackathon at Pace University in New York City and declared some new stats for the App World.

Nothing groundbreaking, but glad to see progress. Apparently RIM now has over 70,000 available apps. over 2 billion app downloads to date, seeing 6 million downloads per day and growing, 177 million app downloads every month. Good stats for a company some are calling dead. RIM has always stated they are looking to have quality apps versus quantity.

Comparing to other app stores, Apple’s App Store has over 585,000 available apps, the Google Play Store has over the 450,000 available apps, Microsoft’s Windows Marketplace just crossed over the 70,000 app mark… so it looks like Windows Phone and BlackBerry are tied for 3rd place.

RIM is preparing to reveal their upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS in May at BlackBerry World. This will – hopefully – bring a new life to the company. In addition, their BlackBerry 10 smartphones are still on track to be released “in the latter part of 2012.”

Source: Twitter
Via: N4BB

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    Posted by BBMan | March 31, 2012, 11:07 am
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  2. This is great news! Should shut all the people who are pointing fingers at RIM and saying their dead. Well 10k apps in a month from a dead company eh? Keep it up RIM.

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    Posted by Ingeniumed | March 31, 2012, 11:08 am
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  3. “Last month RIM stated the BlackBerry App World had over 60,000 apps, saw over 174 million apps downloaded every month, 75 million app downloads per day, over 2 billion app downloads to date.”

    174+ million app downloads a month…
    75 million app downloads a day…

    Does not compute.

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    Posted by A.J | March 31, 2012, 11:14 am
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      Posted by 70Kapps | March 31, 2012, 11:21 am

    • The guy who came up with those numbers is probably the same guy who does their financial statements, no wonder they’re in trouble.

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      Posted by Manny | April 1, 2012, 1:36 am

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    Posted by 70Kapps | March 31, 2012, 11:18 am
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    Posted by Domingo | March 31, 2012, 11:36 am
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    • You mean RIM is focusing on quality apps like Skype and Netflix?? Oh wait, these apps are not available in the BB app world …. I guess then they’re not quality apps according to your reasoning.

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      Posted by Sub-Joker | March 31, 2012, 1:36 pm

  6. So when they come out with the full touch screen phones, how are the apps supposed to work on both full screens and the bb7 half screens? It is going to be a mess for developers.

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    Posted by Bukovian Smorzhee | March 31, 2012, 11:41 am
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    • Ummm well…if the app runs on the touch screen only devices in portrait and landscape mode then they will run on the “half screen” devices just fine.

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      Posted by SheepSix | March 31, 2012, 11:55 am

  7. Another thing that doesn’t compute….
    Going from 75 million app downloads a day to 6 million app downloads a day, is not an improvement. Somewhere the math is wrong and I’m guessing it’s the 75. It was probably 5 million app downloads a day, up to 6 now.

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    Posted by voice of reason | March 31, 2012, 11:59 am
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  8. Mobile Syrup,if you are reporting on a story involving stats, please make an effort to ensure that the numbers make sense. Unless you WANT us to think that you are pulling the numbers out of your a$$….

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    Posted by Chuku | March 31, 2012, 12:13 pm
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  9. Editors…April fools day is tomorrow..

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    Posted by Chuku | March 31, 2012, 12:14 pm
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  10. psss…….’developers, developers, developers RIM’. o.0

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    Posted by joseph Niagara | March 31, 2012, 12:23 pm
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  11. seems like many people posting are rooting for RIM to crumble….for What reason? RIM is a good company, and for quite some time they were a great company. Like many Corps they made their mistakes. Haters are just a bunch of contrarians half the time.I hope RIM regains its strength again. Best of Luck!

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    Posted by thelonevr | March 31, 2012, 1:28 pm
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  12. Yes there is quantity many there arent many quality apps. I have a playbook and most of the apps are poorly designed. The playbook itself is very good and deserves better games

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    Posted by Aman | March 31, 2012, 2:14 pm
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    • I strongly agree with you, the Playbook is well built, well designed, fits nicely in your hands, web surfing is probably the best available on a mobile device. Having said that though, without killer apps like Netflix and Skype amongst others it’s a disappointment.

      I was at a RIM convention last month and the guy from RIM was talking up the playbook, this is so great and that’s so great and this and that and the other and then unfortunately he touched on the front facing screen (which by the way looks really really good when it comes to image quality) and apparently there’s a video chat app coming for it, that will allow playbook users to use it for video conferencing, can’t remember the name, so this guy kept going on about it, I raised my hand and said, “that’s all great and good, but the majority of people don’t own playbooks, they own computers, they own iphones, they own android phones, they own a lot of things, so what’s going on with something like SKYPE?” As you can probably guess, the guy started serious damage control by saying that they were in conversations blah blah blah, bottom line, it’s not happening.

      See RIM does have some decent products but they don’t follow up with the application ecosystem to make those products even better, that’s what I think irks a lot of people.

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      Posted by Manny | April 1, 2012, 1:45 am

  13. Why are there so many haters here? The more competition there is, the better for consumers. I don’t have a BB anymore but they are a good company and who knows, the BB10 might be a good system on a smartphone. I have a Playbook with the new 2.0 system and I think it is great. I use primarily for work related things and it works phenomenally. Instead of just wishing someone’s death why not hope it does well as we may all end up as winners in the long run. With that attitude t

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    Posted by hondo | March 31, 2012, 3:53 pm
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    • I think most Canadians including myself want RIM to do well, there are jobs riding on it, people’s livelyhoods, but it hurts and has hurt to see them stick with the same boring outdated products while everyone innovates, some stuff works some doesn’t but companies around the world innovate, in the last 5 years has that much really changed with regards to blackberries? And I think this is what angers people, it’s like having a friend/family member addicted to drugs, you know they’re hurting themselves, you want them to do well but they let you down at every turn.

      You can’t save a person/company when their worst enemy is themselves.

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      Posted by Manny | April 1, 2012, 1:48 am

  14. This is great news! Bought myself a 32GB Playbook today, I couldn’t pass up such a great offer anymore. Its A pleasure to use and feels like excellent build quality! I also really appreciate the bridge feature, goes seamlessly with my 9780 (Especially typing on the phone). Everyone is kicking RIM while they are down but we should be supporting a highly innovate Canadian company! Let’s not forget about the very first web enabled Blackberry we all saw. No doubt you drooled! :)

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    Posted by TrickyD | March 31, 2012, 6:13 pm
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  15. RIM is a piece of sheet company… they nee some executions to knock some custo into them… I just got 2 playbooks… both have problems.. one is broken out of the box… they had the audacity to charge iPad price for this when it came out…

    Heinze sauce CEO needs to assasinate all the top level goons…

    WTF they just fired the head tech guy that tells you that he got nothing… no one fired the senior team months before a completely new product launch…

    RIM is dead… but I got my 32GB playbook for $120 nubbaz!!!! Futureshop and BestBuy were giving out coupons…

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    Posted by troll123 | March 31, 2012, 8:37 pm
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  16. 70,000 titles is a respectable start, and way better than the handful that were there at launch.

    They’ve also published stats that show BB developers as a group are more profitable by far than Android devs.

    There’s over a million Playbooks shipped at this point, and, yes, they probably DO make at least a small profit on the 64GB units.

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    Posted by Thunderbuck | April 1, 2012, 2:06 am
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  17. Al these apps and nowhere on the device to put them. What’s the point? My Blackberry can only hold a handful of apps before its full.

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    Posted by Peacenik | April 1, 2012, 9:19 am
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  18. Most of the comments on this thread are written by people who do nothing but regurgitate information. They see articles bashing the company, want to sound sophisticated and spew the same information seen on bgr and other iLove sites.

    The comment about poor financial health is completely bogus, from a B/S perspective the company is VERY healthy. This is also RIM’s first loss in over 50 quarters and it was a non-cash charge. They made profit before goodwill impairment.

    Looks at RIM’s subscriber base growth – the worst year in history saw them add 20 Million plus users. Those are not apple numbers, but there are people out there that don’t drink the apple koolaid. For crying out loud iOS won’t even let me attach a document when replying to mail. You call that forward thinking? Get a grip.

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    Posted by iTard | April 1, 2012, 1:39 pm
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  19. Doesn’t matter how many apps there are. What matters is how many QUALITY apps there are. If you have a high percentage of QUALITY within that 70k then it is more than enough.

    Now…given how difficult it is to actually develop anything for this OS I have a hard time believing that they have many good apps, but that’s a different argument altogether…

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    Posted by John | April 2, 2012, 10:06 am
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