Following “platform’s successes in Q4 related to its applications and developer ecosystem”, BlackBerry has released a list of statistics to highlight the developments on BlackBerry software.
These milestones include:
BlackBerry App Milestones – Q4
- 21% increase in BlackBerry smartphone apps
- 89% increase in BBM connected apps
- 240% increase in PlayBook apps submitted to App World
BlackBerry Developer Milestones – Q4
- 68% increase in vendors registered on App World
- 42% increase in apps submitted to App World by developers
- 137% increase in PlayBook apps approved for sale
- Built porting guides to allow WebOS and jQuery apps to be ported to PlayBook
- Announced port of Qt to allow Nokia developers to target PlayBook and soon, BlackBerry 10
- Launched BlackBerry Native SDK 2.0 for the BlackBerry PlayBook
- Prior to PlayBook OS 2.0 launch, incented 10,000 new developers to register as BlackBerry developers, with offer of a PlayBook in exchange for an app. Over 7,000 new apps submitted
- Total BBM Connected apps - 735
- Total BBM Connected downloads – 183 million
BlackBerry Apps –By the Numbers
- More than 70,000 apps in App World
- More than 15,000 PlayBook apps
- More than 2 billion total apps downloaded
- 177 million apps downloaded per month
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