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BlackBerry App World surpasses 1 billion downloads

by Ryan Blundell on 12 Jul 2011 01:45 PM
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Discover a world of possibilities. Those are the words that have greeted you just before you start browsing through BlackBerry App World on your desktop. Though not as vast as the Android Market or the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World is home to tens of thousands of applications. Looking for IM or Social Networking app? You can browse through hundreds of them. Are References and eBooks more your flavour? Over 10 thousand of them are there to look through. Within its doors are some amazing applications from amazing developers with even more amazing success stories. Bellshare GmbH, the developers of apps like BeWeather and SmartAlerts have seen over $1 million in sales. Jingu, an app used to upload emoticons, chat and create avatars, is nearing 1 million downloads in less than a month. As the Inside BlackBerry official blog states:

“BlackBerry App World is now in over 100 countries, seeing an average of 3 million downloads per day, and we recently crossed the 1 billion app download milestone!”

These numbers are a result of both smartphone and PlayBook application downloads. As recently reported, RIM has also started a Developer Stories series on their YouTube Channel, where developers are showcased and explain why they choose to develop BlackBerry apps. Perhaps this will attract more developers, more apps and, in turn, more download milestones.

Source: Inside BlackBerry

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: BlackBerry App World, BlackBerry Apps
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18 Comments

Posted by con4n007 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

Awesome milestone!
First!!

 
 
Posted by Matt J Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

Awesome, but I'm sure it won't make the news.

 
 
Posted by henryg23 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

I hope that with QNX, those numbers get sky high.

 
 
Posted by glinc Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

LOLx, have you seen the amount of apps from bb appworld in a QNX device? its a joke hahaha.

 
 
Posted by dasDestruktion Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

Its also what, a couple months old? Go away.

 
 
Posted by 07thking Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

Please show me a smartphone or any device as a matter a fact with 300,000 apps installed on it. That's right, shew fly!!!

 
 
Posted by speters150 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

I wonder how inflated those numbers really are with people downloading updates. As terrible of a selection and as pricey as most apps are in BB App World, I just can't see 3 million downloads strictly being for new apps.

But at least this is something positive for RIM to hang its hat on.

 
 
Posted by Wolf35Nine Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

Staying positive for RIM. go go go

 
 
Posted by Daz91 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

I'm not gonna lie I'm really surprised by this, I mean the bb app world is horrible!

 
 
Posted by FMB8900 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

RIMdonalds LOL

 
 
Posted by camera531 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

It's cool and all, but android has over 3 billion app downloads since only 2008 and iOS has over 15 billion app downloads since 2007. So, uh....

 
 
Posted by suzicat Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

Android may have over 3 billion app downloads but I see reports of malicious apps in the Android Market every week and other nasties like Zeus/Zitmo targeting Android..

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20078606-245/more-malware-targeting-an...
http://blog.fortinet.com/zitmo-hits-android/

I will stick with BlackBerry and App World, which has all the apps I need, thank you very much, and NO trojans/viruses.

 
 
Posted by lnichols Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

Wow my give a fu@! factor about Android or Apple on a Blackberry site is zippee.... imagine that!

 
 
Posted by FMB8900 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

actually the iOS app store was not launched until summer of 2008

 
 
Posted by BitPusher2600 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

+1
I don't care about other application markets. I'm halfway in a decent mood after reading this article, and 1bil is a decent number as far as I'm concerned. Woot!

 
 
Posted by westtwelve Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

BB app world is pretty pathetic with the amount of apps there are available. Its true android and iOS have a lot apps that are pointless, however there is a far better selection and a far better quality of apps available in comparison to BB app world.

apps are a essential part of a Smartphone, however it seems RIM don’t understand that and still think their secure push e-mail & BBM service is enough to make them survive for years to come.

Iphone will soon have imessage there are also other cross platform options such as whatsapp, ping chat etc..., these alternatives may not be as good as BBM or secure as BBM but it’s the first step to a near like experience, the point is apple and other OS developers saw something in this market and banked in on it, they adapted to the changing market. RIM on the other hand hasn’t done anything. the two retarded CEO's mike and Jim just probably sit in their offices and communicate to each other and everyone at headquarters on BBM as they don’t know how to address share holders or even know how to behave and answer simple questions in interviews.

Major developers have already quit on developing anything for BB OS, sooner or later the remaining will jump ship too.

I've been using BB's (work & personal) since 2006, the security/encryption on BB devices including email and data is by far the best and it’s actually one of the reasons why I’ve continued using one as a personal handset. However the market is changing and other OS will sooner or later have security/encryption similar to that of BB's. Major companies are allowing employees to use personal handsets now which can range from iphones to android devices, you get the idea.

I really hope RIM does something to address the issues they are facing and do it quick, cause even the most loyal BB addicts will jump ship, and I’m pretty sure the crackberry team own other Smartphones besides a BB.

 
 
Posted by birdman_36 Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011 313 days ago

The number is not that impressive. Take 50 million users who download an average of 20 apps in their BlackBerry lifetime, and there's your 1 billion.

 
 
Posted by allengeorge Thursday, Jul 14, 2011 312 days ago

An important point to note - but was not mentioned above - was that this number _includes app updates_. I'd like to see the numbers without updates. If you assume that each app is updated (on average) at least twice, then the number of applications 'bought' or fresh-installed is much, much lower, i.e. ~ 333M.

Source was BGR, which cited RIM themselves: http://goo.gl/DqYNi