So what makes BB the sole victim of what “these companies” intended? Is a 1/3 of Apple’s App Store from one developer? Was that ever the case? At any point in time? They were the first and the loudest, trumpeting the metric for the longest time… Shouldn’t they be the worst affected? How about Google Play? They quickly followed on the numbers game… No? Windows? They’ve been the most aggressive in paying and enticing developers to boost numbers… No? But, of course, Apple had as many apps as BB has now five years ago. The whole idea of “the companies” is such a blatant red herring, that claiming so makes your whole argument fall apart.

The argument that BlackBerry is victim to the desire to make number of apps a significant indicator, or at least a PR tagline, is utterly devoid of logic. Go into any mobile application store, and 99.9% of the applications in it are crap. They want to keep touting that number.Ĭompanies wanted this to be a numbers game, and now it is. In a statement to The Verge, BlackBerry confirms the issue, but states that it’s not actually an issue at all. The companies were the ones who started touting quantity over quality when it comes to mobile application stores, and the press played right into their hands. This is what happens when the technology press lets itself be dictated by companies. That’s not a good sign of a “thriving ecosystem.”

Yes, a Hong Kong-based company called S4BB has published just under 47,000 apps to BlackBerry World since launch.

The problem is that over a third of those apps come from a single developer. “BlackBerry has a thriving ecosystem with BlackBerry 10.” That’s what CEO Thorsten Heins said this May at a developer conference before revealing that users had a choice of 120,000 apps from its still-young app market, BlackBerry World.

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