Comments on: BlackBerry App Developers Don’t Promote Success Stories

By: Android Device Sales May Be High But Developers Can’t Monetize | BlackBerry Cool

Mon, 30 May 2011 21:46:53 +0000

[...] give insight into the app industry, and a lot of developers are going cross-platform these days. Here at BlackBerryCool we’ve talked a lot about the fact that BlackBerry developers are making… albeit the media’s insistence that they aren’t attracting developers. Sure, [...]

By: justanotherdeveloper

justanotherdeveloper — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:14:00 +0000

Another problem–one more concerning the quality of bb apps rather than the success, two connected topics–is that RIM, through their expensive Alliance Club, only enables successful developers who interact with RIM physically through multiple conferences and monetarily through over-priced fees. The free membership only enables networking with other developers and does not grant access to their development programs.

If RIM wants more quality apps, and thus more success stories, their focus needs to shift from company interaction to Product ability.

And no, RIM does not share such revenue or even download numbers–according to one Sr. Marketing Manager, Peter Valin, whom our company contacted directly for market research when we were in the planning stages of a new product.

By: Alberto Plantilla

Alberto Plantilla — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:24:00 +0000

Personally I love my BB apps Socialscope, Podtrapper, and ShortCutMe