Blackberry World
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| developer | Blackberry |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| Current version | 4.4.0.54 (July 17, 2013) |
| operating system | Blackberry OS , Blackberry Tablet OS , Blackberry 10 |
| programming language | Java |
| License | proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
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Blackberry World ( spelling BlackBerry World ) is an app store for the Blackberry OS smartphone operating system as well as Blackberry 10 and Blackberry PlayBook OS from Blackberry . Until 2013 the name was still Blackberry App World, then music and videos were also offered. Currently (May 2013) around 120,000 apps are available, around 75% of which are chargeable.
functionality
You have to register a user account (Blackberry ID) to download . Payment can be made via PayPal , credit card and the telephone bill. In contrast to other smartphone ecosystems, it is possible to obtain apps outside of the store. Only with the latest version 3.1 is it possible to access the store via WLAN . A new feature is that you can buy an app and then give it to friends as a gift.
growth
The store was announced on October 21, 2008 at the Blackberry Developers Conference and went online on April 1, 2009.
In his keynote at the DevCon Europe developer conference on February 7, 2012, the then Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins announced the following figures:
- 2 billion downloads by January 2012
- Payment in 26 currencies
- 120,000 apps available since May 2013
- 6 million downloads daily on average
- represented in 164 markets
- Purchase via telephone bill from 40 cellular phone providers
About 20% of the available apps are ported Android programs that run in an emulator .
Programs offered
| date | Downloads per day | Total downloads | Available apps |
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| July 30, 2010 | 1,000,000 | 10,438 | |
| September 27, 2010 | 1,500,000 | ||
| February 14, 2011 | 2,000,000 | 26,179 | |
| March 22, 2011 | 3,000,000 | ||
| July 12, 2011 | 3,000,000 | 1,000,000,000 | 36,781 |
| February 7, 2012 | 6,000,000 | 2,000,000,000 | 67,310 |
| July 8, 2012 | 6,000,000+ | 3,000,000,000 | 77.501 |
| March 31, 2013 | 6,000,000+ | 4,000,000,000 | 135,000 |
| April 23, 2014 | 234,500 |
criticism
In 2013 it was criticized that of the approximately 120,000 apps available at the time, more than 47,000 (39%) came from a single company based in Hong Kong, mostly with only limited use, sometimes without use. This app spam sometimes blocks the view of the really good apps.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RIM: BlackBerry App World becomes BlackBerry World . In: Notebookcheck . ( notebookcheck.com [accessed March 21, 2017]).
- ↑ http://devblog.blackberry.com/2013/07/built-for-blackberry-update-3/
- ↑ http://crackberry.com/blackberry-app-world-stats-devcon-europe
- ↑ http://www.teltarif.de/blackberry-apps-android-jelly-bean/news/51017.html
- ↑ Research2Guidance: Smartphone App Market Monitor vol 7 . Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d BlackBerry App World Doubles Downloads in 6 Months . In: BerryReview . Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ↑ BlackBerry App World crosses over the 1 billion app download mark, 3 million downloads per day . In: MobileSyrup . Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ↑ BlackBerry App World Stats: Over 2 billion downloads; 60,000 apps available . In: CrackBerry . Retrieved February 7, 2012.
- ^ BlackBerry: BlackBerry World - BlackBerry Developer. Retrieved March 21, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Archived copy . Archived from the original on February 18, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
- ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Spam: A third of all Blackberry apps come from just one manufacturer - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Netzwelt. Retrieved March 21, 2017 .
