BlackBerry App World hits 10,000 applications

By on Sep 7, 2010 at 3:48 PM
mobile September 7, 2010

According to Research In Motion, the company now has over 10,000 applications in their application store, App World. While 10,000 is not a number to be scoffed at, BlackBerry pales in comparison to Apple’s 250,000 apps and Android’s estimated 100,000 figure. RIM also has the challenge of fighting Google and Apple in the application quality department; BlackBerry apps are probably the most unpolished at this point. Let’s hope RIM’s developer conference — DevCon — will kick things into the next gear.

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  • FlyingPig

    Perhaps we could have a competition to see how many of the 250,000 iPhone users have downloaded.

    After all 250,000 apps is a big deal. No doubt all you iPhone owners are spending your free time downloading them all.

    I’ll bet at least 100,000 are free, so you have no excuse.

    If you download 10 a day, it will only take you 27 years to download them.

    Frankly you’d have to be stupid to develop for that platform unless you have millions in your marketing budget.

  • Christopher

    I love reading comments from these wannabe experts that talk big but don’t know the difference between there and their.

  • @eze4

    Lol @ not knowing the difference between their, there & they’re, two, to, & too gtfoh

  • Kirk

    I’m a long-time BB user and just got a Torch. Love the phone and its capabilities but having tried both Android and iPhone devices the quality of BB apps is just sad.

  • Droidz

    It’s sad that Blackberry can’t get developers for their phone. Blackberry has more users then Apple, Android, and WebOS combined. Sadly they squeak out fewer apps then any other mobile platform. To all the people saying Apple’s 250000 apps are mostly useless…. the same could be said about those 10000 on Blackberry. 99% of those apps are useless, and from my personal experience Blackberry apps are piss poor quality. Truly a sad day when you cannot attract developers to your platform when you enjoy the largest market segment of “smartphones”. That’s like coming in last place in the Special Olympics and being excited about that participation ribbon you just won. Here’s to you RIM……../golf clap

  • b.m

    it’s sad for RIM, but they’re done it to themselves by making it so hard for us to write apps for the damn thing.

    on iPhone, you write an app and it runs on iPhones. on Andriod, same thing. on BB, you write a Torch app. then you write a bold app, then you write …

    plus, the development environment between iPhone and Andriod it straight-forward and there is a lot of codebase reuse between the systems. on BB, they have their own environment and it’s terrible. many changes must be made get anything going on it. ughhh.

    • http://www.mitchsurp.com mitch

      This, this, 1000 times this. I fear this is why the 3rd-party apps for BlackBerry fail hard sometimes. I’m holding out for a big a big announcement at DevCon. If not, I’m saving my pennies and dropping them on a G2.

      I’ve been a die-hard BB user for years (8100, 8120, 9700) but the fact is that there are many apps found on a rooted G1 (what I’m toying with now) that will never make it to the BB platform. I’m talking things like Wardriving apps, controls for Orb, Windows Media Center — hell, most simple GAMES are sub-par on BB.

      If RIM isn’t going to allow developers to create apps that run natively to the platform (instead of being stuck in j2me), then I’m selling my 9700 (sleek, sexy, beautiful device) and upping with T-Mobile for 2 more years on a G2.

  • GolumofDubai

    So BB doesn’t have 1,000 fart apps or dozens of apps that show who is having a crap within a mile radius of you. I did a quick comparison and it looks like blackberry has the majority of the top 100 apps that droid and iphone has.

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