5 posts and columns on BlackBerry App World

RIM Will End PlayBook Sideloading to Escape “Android Market Cesspool”

in Mobile on April 9 at 3:14 am PT

Developers are getting restless about piracy.
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Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).
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Apple Will Take 76 Percent of App Market Revenues This Year

in Mobile on May 4, 2011 at 10:07 am PT

Mobile apps are fast becoming big business, generating a remarkable amount of revenue for something that’s only been around a short while. In 2009, combined revenues for the Big Four app stores–Apple’s App Store, Google’s Android Market, Nokia’s Ovi Store and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World–were about $830.6 million, according to IHS iSuppli. By 2010, they’d risen to $2.1 billion. And by the end of 2011, they’re expected to hit $3.8 billion.

RIM Consumes Cellmania

in News on August 24, 2010 at 2:31 pm PT

Research In Motion’s M&A group is keeping busy these days. Last week we heard it was talking to mobile advertising network Millennial Media about an acquisition. Today comes word that RIM has quietly purchased Cellmania, mobile content platform and white-label app store provider.
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BlackBerry App World? Catchy.

in News on March 5, 2009 at 5:24 am PT

Research in Motion’s effort to emulate Apple’s phenomenally successful App Store has a new name: BlackBerry App World. Not much of an improvement over “BlackBerry Application Center,” but an improvement nonetheless.
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