BlackBerry App World to launch April 1, says BusinessWeek

Mark your calendars, BlackBerry fans: BusinessWeek says RIM's going to launch the BlackBerry App World April 1 at CTIA. What's more, the company is apparently planning on going after Apple by courting developers with higher profit margins and the relative sophistication of the average corporate BlackBerry user, which explains that minimum $2.99 paid app price we saw a few weeks ago. An interesting move to position the new service, but we'll see if it takes hold with users -- anyone ready to blow their budget on 'berry software?

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2009 1:40PM]

april fools....

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2009 7:10PM]

It updates a list of all applications available? Is that wise?

What happens when you have 1000 apps available and you update the list. If each application info is about 1KB per application (data + icon) = 1MB per list refresh

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2009 9:35PM]

Yea... um... not caring about app info... but yea, a thousand apps? I doubt you will have that on your phone, you cannot even STORE a thousand apps. You'll run out of memory faster than you can say crap. Phones gotta have memory to run, and considering you can run out of 68 megs really quicky...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2009 5:08PM]

These for any blackberry or just the storm?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2009 10:28PM]

I've gotten more excited about finding the present in a box of Cracker Jacks than the opening of RIM's wannabe store.

Anyone care for a spreadsheet viewer optimizer for your Storm?

[bdav Posted Mar 27th 2009 10:01AM]

Are we finally going to get a worthwhile (and free) PDF reader?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 2:06AM]

the app world is crap i got it as soon as it came out and first off all theres apps thatthe iphone has and blacberry is chargind for em, second they apps r gay, third theres barely any room for applications in application memory and i dont kno how to change where they download to