{"id":47792,"date":"2012-04-13T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=47792"},"modified":"2012-04-13T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:09:20","slug":"blackberry-app-and-developer-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/47792-blackberry-app-and-developer-milestones.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry app and developer milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following \u201cplatform\u2019s successes in Q4 related to its applications and developer ecosystem\u201d, BlackBerry has released a list of statistics to highlight the developments on BlackBerry software.<\/p>\n<p>These milestones include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>BlackBerry App Milestones \u2013 Q4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>21% increase in BlackBerry smartphone apps<\/li>\n<li>89% increase in BBM connected apps<\/li>\n<li>240% increase in PlayBook apps submitted to App World<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BlackBerry Developer Milestones \u2013 Q4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>68% increase in vendors registered on App World<\/li>\n<li>42% increase in apps submitted to App World by developers<\/li>\n<li>137% increase in PlayBook apps approved for sale<\/li>\n<li>Built porting guides to allow WebOS and jQuery apps to be ported to PlayBook<\/li>\n<li>Announced port of Qt to allow Nokia developers to target PlayBook\u00a0and soon, BlackBerry 10<\/li>\n<li>Launched\u00a0BlackBerry Native SDK 2.0 for the BlackBerry PlayBook<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Total BBM Connected apps<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; 735<\/li>\n<li>Total BBM Connected downloads\u00a0\u2013 183 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BlackBerry Apps \u2013By the Numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 70,000 apps in App World<\/li>\n<li>More than 15,000 PlayBook apps<\/li>\n<li>More than 2 billion total apps downloaded<\/li>\n<li>177 million apps downloaded per month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has released a list of milestones achieved by applications and developers at the end of 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,101,97,2862],"class_list":["post-47792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-bbm","tag-blackberry","tag-playbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47808,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47792\/revisions\/47808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}