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Nine Must-Do Fixes for RIM's BlackBerry App World

by Bla1ze on 2 Jul 2009 08:27 AM
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BlackBerry App World: Nine Must-Do Fixes for RIM's App Store

It's been on the mind of some since BlackBerry App World launched, but good friend of CrackBerry Al Sacco lays out a few things for us all that must be done with BlackBerry App World if it is indeed here for the long haul in a new article on CIO.com.

Much like Boy Genius' article the other day, where he shared his feelings on the future of RIM if changes were not made swiftly, Al gives us all a great perspective and insight for the future of App World if changes are not made within that realm as well. Be sure to check it out for a good read through and if you haven't done so already, read the BG's post as well. Both put words to what many have been grumbling for a while now and call RIM out to pick up their game in areas where they've been slacking. Hopefully it all means good things for us BlackBery users in the not so distant future.

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Posted by kidqwik Thursday, Jul 02, 2009 955 days ago

How to fix App World? How about making Blackberries able to save apps on their added memory cards instead of their comically small amount of internal memory? How about rewriting the OS so it's not some same old, same old, OS of like 2003 that is so clunky? App World isn't the problem.. It's the phones RIM releases. It's the OS the phone runs on. It's the inability to save apps without running out of memory because of the inability to save apps to someplace other than a tiny amount of intermal memory. That's what needs to be addressed FIRST in my opinion. App World is a problem because of the bigger problems.

 
 
Posted by kiel.macewan Thursday, Jul 02, 2009 955 days ago

i'd be happy with My World accurately displaying whether or not there were Updates to my applications without having to click on each one individually. That's so annoying

 
 
Posted by sevenpowers Thursday, Jul 02, 2009 955 days ago

...and those 9 reasons are why I stick with Mobihand! Honestly I was upset when AppWorld wasn't made available throughout Europe, and am still waiting for word of when it'll be rolled out here. In the interim, apart from the odd app that's only available on AppWorld, the majority of which seem to be US-centric anyway, I haven't missed out on anything really earth shattering. I shop via Mobihand and the Crackberry Storefront, I use my credit card not PayPal, I get automatic emails to remind me of updates to my apps, the prices are better, and I can sort apps by Paid or Free, and I can browse the selection on the home computer or on my Storm. AppWorld really has a long way to go..................

 
 
Posted by Turk54 Thursday, Jul 02, 2009 955 days ago

Great article - I couldn't agree more! I see that in the article that Al's running a newer version of App World than me, which brings up the point that the app doesn't check or notify if updates are available. I don't mind loading a newer version, but I shouldn't have to check myself if one is avaialble. How do you get the App World app to show up in the My World section? I can never find the App World app itself in App World.

 
 
Posted by gatech84 Thursday, Jul 02, 2009 955 days ago

I tend to agree with Al's comments. This application could be made to run much easier, and lighter. I also have the same problems with MyWorld; today it showed I had only 1 app downloaded but it was uninstalled - strange, since I was still using it! Overall, there are some good apps to be found - but finding them is the difficult part. There must be a better way!

 
 
Posted by rogerbinns Thursday, Jul 02, 2009 955 days ago

Turk54's comment also applies to the Crackberry/Mobihand app. My system already has several applications on it which also happen to the app store catalogues so they should be able to tell me about updates even if they didn't originally install the application.

Blackberry's web site and app store behaviour are hilarious if you are going via direct wifi. You get the impression they would rather you just go away delivering message after message about how you must be using a BlackBerry to your BlackBerry!

 
 
Posted by Tilallrone Friday, Jul 03, 2009 955 days ago

IF RIM don't get there act together I guess should all just go out and get IPhones just like Kevin, Blaze1, and Radio (maybe not Radio just yet). So how can we take anything RIM seriously without them starting over from the start and delivering on something that can compete with todays smartphones. If the number one blackberry site Moderators uses an IPhone. We are doomed

 
 
Posted by douglaman Thursday, Aug 13, 2009 913 days ago

i recently purchased a bb 8900 phone from t mobile but when i'm trying to download the bb application world it keeps saying the phone does not meet the system requirements. when i check the phone it passes all the requirements. can someone please help me out here.