It is true that we have experienced many issues lately with the content being unavailable. We got a lot of emails and comments on the market. Some comments claim that we are not listening and do not know what is happening. This is not true. We always listen and always answer the emails that we [...]
It hasn’t even been a month since initial application release and already traffic is pouring from across the world. We’ve earned our bragging rights. DailyHoroscope is a really popular application. For a while it was in top #10 AppWorld downloaded applications and right now remains on #3 spot in Entertainment category. Exciting!
How do we know? [...]
DailyHoroscope application that was available on Android platform as DailyHoroscope for Android, couple weeks after G1 hit the stores and was very well received by Android crowd, is now available for BlackBerry users. It has been available for download from GetJar and Mobihand for 2 weeks now while waiting for approval on App World. On [...]
I am not sure what is the policy of RIM about it, but I don’t think this is confidential, since pretty much everyone can access this information while trying to setup an App World account. So here, we go:
What does it take to become an App World vendor:
1. You have to sign up and pay [...]
Reportedly, the OVI store from Nokia, will have about 20.000 application on the day one launch. Although this number may seem overwhelming, this is only about 50% of the applications available from App Store – the iPhone marketplace. But the App Store was kicking for some time now, and it actually started with much less [...]
I just posted quite a lengthy post about Android development vs. Blackberry Development on my “Life by bits and numbers – a software developer blog”.
It should be an interesting read for developers planning to have the pain experience of developing for Blackberry. Coming from Android, it might feel a little “outdated”…
Very interesting and insightful interview with Mike Kirkup, RIM’s head of developer relations was posted today by ZDNet.
Q: Google is fairly relaxed about which applications can go into the Android Market, and Apple is quite strict about keeping out App Store submissions that replicate functionality already on the iPhone. What level of gate keeping [...]
There’s no doubt that Apple is definitely contributing BIG innovations. One of the recent ones which was not directly celebrated by the customers, but which opened a lot of new possibilities and directions is the appstore.The idea is simple and yet genius – let’s give people instant access to the content specialized for their OS [...]