Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with conditions)

Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by TamDenholm on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @11:00AM (#3919382)

I was recently working in an agency on a blackberry promotional project and while i was a good 8-9 degrees of abstraction away from RIM (which in itself created problems) it was quite clear they're WAY behind other phone companies and are frantically trying to claw back some ground but finding it hard because certain "partners" are now refusing to get involved with Blackberry projects.

I really think Blackberry's days are numbered no matter how much money they throw at the problem.

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Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by vibrunazo on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:19PM (#3919844)

> it was quite clear they're WAY behind other phone companies

Could you expand on that? I don't know much about RIM, would be interesting to learn why are they taking to so long to catch up.

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Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by excuse-me on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:24PM (#3920435)

When they were the darling of corporate email they weren't interested in having outside developers.

Then when the iPhone came out they made a half-hearted effort to attract devs but there was no app store and to sign up you had to jump through the sort of hoops that a supplier of space shuttle avionics to Nasa would expect.

Then just when they had the sign up and an app store working they made an announcement something like - "it's all going to change with our wonderful new OS but we can't say at the moment how you will program it or if your old apps will be compatible" - at which point most devs looked at their market share and compared it with the number of customers on iPhone and Android and uninstalled the SDK.

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