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BlackBerry Theme Rant!

by Kevin Michaluk on 9 Jun 2008 11:30 AM
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BlackBerry Themes Galore!
There are Lots of Great 3rd Party BlackBerry Themes Available,
but RIM can still do better in servicing this market!

Sifting through my RSS feeds this morning I came across a Rant posted at DevBerry.com about BlackBerry themes. It seems the BBSmart crew have been investigating the BlackBerry theme market and in scoping out the tools theme developers use (aka the Plazmic Theme Builder) have determined that "Everything Sucks" - Plazmic is Buggy, It's WAYYY to easy for BlackBerry owners to Brick their BlackBerrys, and the coolest themes to hit the market (like the Crossbar theme) get yanked by RIM legal before the masses have had a chance to buy them.

I've seen first hand that there is a market and a desire for BlackBerry themes - both Free and Premium. Everybody loves getting stuff for free (me too), but push come to shove there is a big community of people willing to pay the $6/$7/$8 that may be charged for a Premium BlackBerry theme that is unique, pays attention to detail and comes with support from the developer. With RIM's huge growth in the consumer market, this demand is only going to increase. Like ezainny over at DevBerry, I hope RIM starts really paying attention to the 3rd Party BlackBerry theme market and BlackBerry theme developers. Getting theme developers the tools they need to turn out stellar creations should be a top priority, as is putting failsafes in place so you can't nuke your BlackBerry by installing the wrong theme...it's WAY to common of a problem. How to Reload the Operating System on a Nuked BlackBerry SHOULD NOT be one of the most viewed articles at CrackBerry.com... but guess what, it is. 

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6 Comments

Posted by pkozze Monday, Jun 09, 2008 1444 days ago

How do I ask a question on forum? I cant find a way to do this and have a few questions about the phone..
Thank you!

 
 
Posted by Adam Zeis Monday, Jun 09, 2008 1444 days ago

Click on the Forums tab on the top of the page and go from there.

 
 
Posted by Anonymous Monday, Jun 09, 2008 1444 days ago

I would like to buy some cool aftermarket BB Themes as much (or more) than the next person. But I don't! There are too many limitations to aftermarket Themes, especially the lack of Font support in many of the screens.

 
 
Posted by Castor Troy Monday, Jun 09, 2008 1444 days ago

Anybody know where I can find that skull theme for my 8330 Curve? Searched high and low cannot find it.....its pretty slick.

 
 
Posted by BlckBrryMD Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 1443 days ago

RIM Should be supporting developers and offering the tools necessary to build quality applications and themes. If its such a problem then they should charge for PTB 4.3 so developers have skin in the game. Even MS offered a simple theme builder and there are many other apps for the WindowsMobile platform for developing themes etc.

Pretty sad that RIM doesn't want this kind of development when the iPhone will just keep rolling along with users making new wallpapers (no themes there) and Apple doesn't mind, at least not yet.

 
 
Posted by jeremy c Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 1443 days ago

like the really cool vista theme that got pulled from bbextras? i loved taht theme and had to get a warranty replacement for my curve and couldn't get it again... that sucked. it was awesome. it had the bb button as the start button and had the same layout as the start on vista with options and media and stuff...