6 Reasons To Develop On Blackberry Platform
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The success of a platform is greatly multiplied with the effort put in by the third party developers. Apple has set the benchmark example for the success of a platform with the appstore, with 500 million downloads and growing. Blackberry has envisioned the obvious need to have a Application Storefront of its own, and announced today that the Store front is open to app submissions effective today. Blackberry plans to have the store open by Spring and is working hard on it.
The Blackberry App Storefront will be a perfect platform for all developers to showcase their products, and reach users directly. In an interesting move, Blackberry is paying developers by paypal, instead of snail mail checks. While the Blackberry is as very popular as the iphone, applications on the Blackberry are not as popular as those on the iphone. Here are a few reasons why you might want to consider developing on the Blackberry.
Why developing in Blackberry is a good idea?
1. Iphone appstore is flooded, your app will mostly drown in a sea of apps and you will not earn a dime. Starting to write an iphone app now is almost foolish, unless you have a killer idea. Even if you implement a great app, a counterpart offers a very similar application for free. Many paid applications were lost under the earth, the day a free application was announced on the store.
2. Need an idea for an application? Search the appstore!! You can reproduce the most successful applications from the appstore in the blackberry platform.
Blackberry Applications
3. Apple was intelligent to build development tools to create applications, and xcode is one IDE, which every mac user will be proud of. While such luxuries like the iphone SDK are not present in the Blackberry platform, development in java/rapid is not difficult.
4. You get paid by paypal.
5. I went through the documentation of the browser and other apps, and it seems quite well maintained.
6. Blackberry platform is very powerful and you can easily extend your development to the platform of your choice – Java, J2EE, SAP, .NET and IBM WebSphere.
Here are a few resources to get started. ACT TODAY!!
Blackberry Platform – Getting started
I am a sun certified Java Developer and also a Sun certified web component developer, Its time to put those certifications in use? Got an idea? May be we should talk over coffee. Contact me.
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Wince said:
very smart idea. Thanks for the tip.. I am a java developer. Can i develop on the blackberry? I do not know J2EE
January 21st, 2009 at 7:49 am -
Dan Junior said:
What is rapid? Is it a platform like java?
January 28th, 2009 at 8:42 am
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