Something new from RIM – Blackbetter App World, I just tried it out and it has a facny interface, looks great, but speed is not so great, I don’t know who to blame,ย could be RIM who’s not doing the best optimization, or AT&T who’s providing crappy 3G network (is it 3G? I always doubt), or our office building which is located at the wrong place or built with bad material.
The key problem to me from RIM regarding App World, is it does not have enough applications, especially free applications. There is not a good eco system for Blackberry’s application development – although the development tools are free, you still need to apply for fee-based registration if you want to access certain features of your mobile phone. I believe RIM is trying to make sure any applications running on Blackberry is well certified, but it limits the contribution from enterprise only, at least I stopped programming for Blackberry after I found this.
Everybody is talking about how Apple’s iPhone App Store works, it was said you still need to have certified by Apple before you can be listed there, which is perfect resonable to me, but I doubt if Apple is putting any restriction on development side.
Open strategy is always working, if you can attractive freelancers to do the development, that will be great.
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