A developer firm known as S4BB has
single handedly created over 47,000 apps for the BlackBerry World app
market. That amounts to almost one-third of BlackBerry World's total app
count. The app store race
is not even close, but this revelation illustrates another stumbling
block in BlackBerry's attempt at platform and app store relevancy - the
huge discrepancy between quantity and quality of apps in BlackBerry
World.
Some of you may have noticed that a few developers have been exploiting the free submission of apps to BlackBerry World and using it as a promotional tool. Pointed out to me that the worst offender by far is S4BB.he first 20-30 actually seem like good to decent quality legitimate apps and then it rapidly goes downhill.
Either way having 47,000 apps definitely skews any BlackBerry World statistics. I am sure other App Stores have tons of spam and fart apps but I was not aware that BlackBerry World was similarly afflicted by a single developer. This just goes to show that BlackBerry should be focusing on the quality apps instead of the quantity of apps.
What do you think? How should BlackBerry handle this sort of BlackBerry World app flooding? Are they doing the right thing by letting them in and letting users decide if they should buy or ignore them?
PS: Is anyone else curious how long it took BlackBerry World’s crack squad of reviewers to review these 47,000 apps from one vendor? Could that be why it takes so long for an app to be approved?
Some of you may have noticed that a few developers have been exploiting the free submission of apps to BlackBerry World and using it as a promotional tool. Pointed out to me that the worst offender by far is S4BB.he first 20-30 actually seem like good to decent quality legitimate apps and then it rapidly goes downhill.
Either way having 47,000 apps definitely skews any BlackBerry World statistics. I am sure other App Stores have tons of spam and fart apps but I was not aware that BlackBerry World was similarly afflicted by a single developer. This just goes to show that BlackBerry should be focusing on the quality apps instead of the quantity of apps.
What do you think? How should BlackBerry handle this sort of BlackBerry World app flooding? Are they doing the right thing by letting them in and letting users decide if they should buy or ignore them?
PS: Is anyone else curious how long it took BlackBerry World’s crack squad of reviewers to review these 47,000 apps from one vendor? Could that be why it takes so long for an app to be approved?
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