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

Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by eli on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:20PM (#3919852)

Seems more like just a nice bonus for people who were already planning to release a moderately successful commercial app for Blackberry. And RIM doesn't care about people creating free or ad-supported apps?

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Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by vibrunazo on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:38PM (#3919948)

I don't think it's a matter of they not caring. But how would they support it without giving room for fraud? Their certificate only goes so far, the $1k limit just sounds like an easy way to make sure that the app is indeed reasonably good and has a real market. If they tried to support free apps, it would be much harder for them to make sure.

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Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by eli on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:46PM (#3919982)

By making the threshold $1000 or 1000 downloads (or 5000 downloads, whatever)?

Really, they should be reaching out to developers who already have successful apps on other platforms and convincing them to port. But maybe that's happening also behind the scenes.

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