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RIM Needs More Fart Apps, Not Fewer

John Paczkowski in News on September 30, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

There are some 10,000 apps in Research in Motion’s BlackBerry App World, and while that’s a pittance compared with the 250,000 in Apple’s iTunes App Store and 70,000 in Google’s Android Market, RIM is in no big rush to raise the number, particularly if it means bolstering it with a bunch of throwaway apps that are going to drag its staid enterprise brethren into the gutter. Or the toilet.

First Impressions of the New BlackBerry App Store

Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on April 1, 2009 at 11:09 am PT

Walt gives his first impressions of the new BlackBerry App World. The store has hundreds of apps available at launch, and RIM says it expects around a thousand to be available in its first week. Like Apple’s store, RIM’s offers both free and paid apps that download directly to your device.