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RIM’s BB10 ambitions are coming along nicely, with developers responding in huge numbers to the blatant cash bribe offered to get their apps up on BlackBerry App World and ready for BB10′s imminent launch.
The sudden influx of BB10 apps isn’t entirely due to optimism about a return to form for the struggling BlackBerry maker. RIM has been running a “Port-a-thon” event, where developers are given $100 a time in return for making their tools work properly with BB10. If you’re an amateur developer with 20 crappy Android wallpaper apps floating about, it’s been a very profitable week.
Rim’s Alec Saunders, the mobile firm’s VP of developer relations, announced on Twitter that some 15,000 BB10-ready apps appeared on BlackBerry App World over the weekend thanks to the cash giveaway incentive, helping the company brace for the world’s reaction to its new phone on January 30th. [The Register]
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Rim have been bribing Android devs for ages to port stuff across. This means their store won’t be empty at least, but surely no professional dev is going to think $100 worth their time.
‘Surely most developers’ also realize Blackberry developers earn more money on average than iOS and Android developers , that was proven last fall, to the isheep and android followers amazement.
This port-a-thon just shows developers how easy it is to port apps to BB10, which is easier than any other platform now. Why spends months developing an app on Android and not port it to BB10 when it only takes 1 day to do so? 1 day to reach 80 million customers who spend more money on apps. This was a brilliant move by Blackberry, they are now the most developer friendly platform.
I guess it’s a case of “build it and they will come”, hoping to draw the old BB fans back to the fold.