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Blackberry App World Launches

April 1st, 2009

By Jon M. Cohen

 

Looks like the boys over at Research in Motion have finally jumped on the “App Store” bandwagon. Following in the footsteps of both Apple’s App Store on iTunes and Google’s App Store for the Android OS. Today RIM launched their very own branded App Store called App World. A move that is not totally surprising considering the great success that Apple has seen. But the Blackberry App World has a long way to go to catch up with Apple’s 35,000+ Applications. With the upcoming App Store for the Palm Pre being highly talked about, it was a smart move for Blackberry to get the ball rolling on this App World program. The only question is if it is not a bit too late? The App market has become over saturated in the last number of months and as evidence to that we see the ongoing discounting of Apps in the iTunes store. These discounted prices unfortunately destroy the basic value system for all other Apps on all other platforms. Therefore when we look at the 475 apps that Blackberry is offering we cringe at the idea of paying $11.99 for Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile or $9.99 for SplashMoney Personal Finance. What most Apple developers have realized over the past 10 months is that the correct pricing for Apps is in the sub $4.99 price point. It is to be assumed that like any free market economy that as soon as more Apps are made, and their is a greater competition that the prices will be lowered.

 

You can download your own copy of the Blackberry App World HERE.

 

System Requirements

To ensure that your BlackBerry® smartphone will support BlackBerry App World™, it must have the following system requirements:

BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.2 or higher

BlackBerry smartphones with trackballs or SurePress™ touch screen

BlackBerry App World is only available to customers in US, Canada and UK and may not be available on all networks

How to check your operating system from your BlackBerry smartphone:

Click “Options” from your BlackBerry smartphone

Select “About”, then click. Your BlackBerry smartphone operating system information will be displayed

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