Research in Motion has just launched Blackberry Application World, an interface designed to help Blackberry users find apps for their handsets. It is a lot similar to Apple’s App World concept, so this article will review Application World to see if it is a worthy contender.
At its relatively young age, being launched merely weeks ago, BlackBerry Application World is showing great developments. There is no doubt that it can be a serious contender for Apple’s App Store, because the amount of applications being made available for free — or with a one-time charge — within this platform is growing rapidly.
There are different categories of applications such as business, entertainment, finance, games, health, IM and social networking, productivity, news, weather, travel, even news and books. You can easily find compatible applications for your BlackBerry handsets using BlackBerry Application World, and have them downloaded and installed in no time at all.
If you are just browsing around to look for interesting apps, you can also see the latest applications added as well as popular free and paid applications. Believe me when I say the number of applications being made available at the BlackBerry Application World is growing rapidly, and it can soon rival Apple’s App Store for sure. This is because developers are diving into the growing market of BlackBerry users worldwide and see BlackBerry Application World as a great opportunity to reach their potential customer.
If browsing for apps via your BlackBerry handsets seems like too much of a trouble, you can visit BlackBerry Application World from your PC as well.
Is it an attempt to rival Apple’s App Store? Maybe. Is it a good attempt, does it has the chances of winning? Absolutely yes.
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Ankur Jain is a Software Engineer in Test Automation. After a 5 years stint with Accenture and Oracle, he started his eLearning company. A long-time blogger and proud owner of the "Learn" series of websites. 