BUT they first of all must must must get a desktop Manager for the Mac sorted. There is no way they can ignore the Mac community if they don’t want to lose market share to Apple and I fail to see how they could introduce an app store without addressing that issue first

– BlackBerry Wallet integration
– A BlackBerry Labs section (although I’m sure many BES Admins would be THRILLED at having unfinished software on their devices)

But how do they implement this? A website or a standalone application similar to iTunes? Maybe they build it into Desktop Manager with the Media Sync stuff?

Thoughts?

BlackBerry – you should have done this years ago. Is it too late?

I’ve used a BB for the last 9 months and have to say that from the beginning I was very disappointed with RIM’s site. The one you access through BB Browser is rubbish: horrible organisation, impossible to find anything and miserable offer of applications.

It is a very messy business model where you can find an application lying in some obscure corner of their site but it doesn’t work with your device or your carrier. Simplicity for the user is the key word.

RIM is trying to get into the mass market but they have a lot of work to do on that sense.

For me, Iphone is another phone, however, I cannot look at at the appstore with a blind eye, some of the applications, I could just wish were available on Blackberry

Perhaps its a different way these devices emerged, RIM started off corporate and is penetrating consumer market. Whereas thanks to ipod generation, Apple started off in consumer and is penetrating to Corporate.

Fine, you can say BB is coming with Thunder, but really lets be honest. When it comes to interface of iphone, blackberry blows.

Apps really making iphone a real killer, I won’t be suprise by the end of this year, you’ll see iphone eating up RIM’s market share.

I think it would be extremely beneficial for RIM. I was thinking a 3rd party could write one, but then nobody would be arsed to keep their apps up to date. But then again, if RIM were in control I’m sure there would be a painful approval process, etc. I kind of like the fact that I can go out and find software that is “made by some guy” with my Blackberry out of the box. But at the same time the stability of some of those apps is horrid.

Would be cool if they added a “Labs” type section too. “Upcoming apps..give us your input to help create these apps” or something like this.

BUT, RIM won’t do it. Not in the “carrier is master” environment in which we live these days. There is NO WAY the likes of Verizon and such are going to give up their stranglehold, unless RIM figures out a way to compensate the carriers for users being able to buy and use apps free of carrier interference.