Blackberry Apps Store To Keep Applications In The Cloud

March 19, 2009

Research in Motion expects to unveil its App World store for Blackberry mobile applications this month, though it won’t offer a specific date.

“Very soon,” is all Senior Vice President Alan Brenner would say during an onstage interview at the 2009 Wireless Innovations conference in Silicon Valley.

Store will have quality and quantity, says Alan Brenner

Store will have quality and quantity, says Alan Brenner

What Brenner did say is that the smartphone maker expects to have both the quality and quantity of applications to attract users. He also said RIM will store applications in the cloud for users to download as often as they would like.

The use case goes like this. Suppose a user deletes an application. He or she can download it again for free. Or perhaps users have purchased more applications than they can store on their phone.

They can manage their applications in the cloud, deleting existing ones to make room for new ones and then reloading the old ones when they are through.

“We expect to have many high quality applications,” he said. “We expect to have the numbers, too.”


BlackBerry Plans IPhone-Like Apps Store For Spring

January 19, 2009

Research In Motion has started asking developers to submit mobile phone applications for its new apps store planned for the spring.

BlackBerry Application Storefront seeking developers

BlackBerry Application Storefront seeking developers

The Blackberry Application Storefront is the company’s response to the success Apple has had with its online Apps Store and its ability to encourage third-party application development for its iPhone.

“The market for BlackBerry applications is growing at a phenomenal rate and the application storefront will offer you the exciting opportunity to showcase you applications to millions of BlackBerry smartphone users,” the company said Monday on its Web site.

“We’re counting down to a spring launch,” the page said.

Developers can submit both consumer- and business-focused applications.


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