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By: Kyle McInnes

Kyle McInnes — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:56:41 +0000

It's true that tools like this could flood the market with useless and "low apps" but I Google's approach. The idea is that you lower the barrier to entry so tremendously, and leave it up to the Android Market or App World to make it discoverable. If RIM did this, and we saw a huge increase in apps, it would push them to come up with a way to make the quality apps front and center, and the bad stuff buried so as to not affect the user experience.

All of this reminds me of a conversation I had with a BlackBerry game developer here in Ottawa. He was saying how he had an iPhone game and a BlackBerry game. For the iPhone, he had around 20 competitors. For BlackBerry, he had none. The barrier to entry can be a positive thing for developers who are good programmers and can afford to enter the market.

By: JBascu

JBascu — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:03:15 +0000

Althought this is a great idea, I'm afraid this means a overflow of poor quality apps. I explain this:

I want a great and easy tools for developers to do great and quality apps, to give this powerfull tools to a expert must results in powerfull apps. I have no doubt that may be persons without knowledges in this area that can do usefull apps, but you must find first betwen all the amount of "low apps" that can be generated.

So, I basically agree with @jw and @Eric at Ebscher I don't want this for all RIM users, only for developers will be better

By: jw

jw — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:57:03 +0000

While tools like this look great they are not as useful as most people think they are. It may be useful for rapidly building a basic UI or for letting novice devs make a basic app, but no “must have” app with a compelling UI is going to be made with this.

By: Eric at Ebscer

Eric at Ebscer — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:19:10 +0000

Be careful what you wish for…