BlackBerry has confirmed that their App World has reached the three billionth app download mark this week, despite its odd times in the market.
We have been hearing for so long now about the milestones the iOS App Store and Google Play Store has been reaching, but many forgot to notice the achievement the BlackBerry App World has got. RIM (Research In Motion), the company behind the development and selling of BlackBerry devices across the world, is in complete distress now, holding a very poor market share in mobile devices. But there’s something to be happy about.
RIM has announced that they have reached the three billionth app download mark this week, and is expecting it to go at a good place in the coming months. This might not sound really great for the Android and iOS users, but this is pretty good news for the BlackBerry users across the world.
In a blogpost on the BlackBerry Dev blog, Victoria has mentioned enthusiastically that the company is busting the myth that BB App World apps are not for tablets and such:
There’s a myth out there that there aren’t apps for BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. Let me help bust that myth.
These apps are the ones which were downloaded solely from the BlackBerry App World and not from other third party vendors who provide the same kind of service. But there are only 90,000 apps available on the BlackBerry App World and this number is very less when compared to that of iOS and Google Play stores.
RIM is also expecting this growth to continue in the forthcoming release of BlackBerry 10, which is coming out early next year. Despite all odds, that the company is facing, Thorsten Heins, CEO, says:
“As some pundits write RIM’s obituary, the company’s global subscriber base continues to grow, to more than 78 million people in 175 countries,”
He also added:
“In many of those countries – some of the fastest growing markets in the world – RIM is the top smart-phone; and in some, RIM devices account for the top three spots.”
This is some really good news for the RIM, but they’ve got to pick up to the pace of the competitors to get back its market.