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Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by dyeje on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:33PM (#3919915)
I've only heard terrible things from other people about BlackBerry dev. Specifically, that there were numerous issues porting. Does anyone have any experience to the contrary? What is the BlackBerry user base like at this point anyway?
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Re:Blackberry to give $10,000 incentive to build apps(with c... by gravitronic on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:35PM (#3919928)
I ported my SDL/C++ DJ app DJPad from HP TouchPad to Android, and then to PlayBook. It took less than a week to do the port and on the first day of sales, it outsold 2 months of Android sales in a single day and continues to outsell Android by about 2 to 1.

Without any press it did about $300+/day for the first 3-4 days, then drifted down to about $30/day where it is still selling at that rate a month and a half later.

I also got a free PlayBook out of the deal as it was during a "write a new app for BlackBerry and we ship you a free PlayBook" offer.

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