BlackBerry World now has 1,00,000 Apps and Games for BB10, good news for BB10 users

BlackBerry 10 users have a piece of good news, the Apps and Games on BlackBerry World for BB10 has crossed 1,00,000 limit.  As per the Press release of BlackBerry since launching BlackBerry 10 on 30th Jan 2013, the catalogue has crossed from 70,000 to 1,00,000 in period of 4 months.  

As of today, Amazon Kindle, OpenTable and The Wall Street Journal are available to BlackBerry 10 customers and in the coming weeks CNN, The Daily Show Headlines, eBay, eMusic, Maxim, MLB at Bat, MTV News, Pageonce, PGA, Rdio, Skype, Soundhound and Viber will be available for download or purchase.

Further the release goes on to state the Apps and Games which were already covered included some amazing titles like 8tracks, Angry Birds Star Wars, ATP World Tour Live, BBC Top Gear News, Bloomberg Anywhere, CBS Sports, Delta Air Lines, F1 2013 Timing App CP, Facebook, Foursquare, Jetpack Joyride, Keek, LinkedIn, Navita Translator, Need for Speed, NHL GameCenter, N.O.V.A. 3, The New York Times, PressReader, Slacker, Songza, Twitter, UFC, USA TODAY, Waze, WhatsApp, and Zara.

Here’s what Martyn Mallick, Vice President, Global Alliances at BlackBerry had to say of the announcement:

“The response to the BlackBerry 10 platform and applications has been outstanding. Customers are thrilled with the applications already available, and the catalog just keeps growing, now with more than 100,000 apps.  Top brands and application providers are joining us every day and are seeing the benefits of being early supporters of the new platform. We constantly hear from developers that the BlackBerry 10 tools are easy to build with and that we provide opportunities for app differentiation that they do not see on other platforms.”

If you have not already downloaded the Apps and Games listed in this Article head over to BlackBerry World here and get them now. Let us know what your favorite apps are in the comments.

Vijay Prabhu

Both HTC One and BlackBerry Z10 fail to make grades

Both the phones were launched with much fanfare and both the phones are the proverbial last straw for the respective mobile manufacturers yet both have failed to make a dent in the world mobile market.  HTC One and BlackBerry Z 10 are going to be remembered for long time for being failures.  

The HTC One marketing team has acknowledged the slip in sales by hiking the marketing budget by 250 % for the next fiscal and going to ditch its once marquee tagline "Quietly Brilliant".  May be they have realised that instead of being quietly brilliant the phone has to be loud and brilliant.  Anyhow it has to make right kind of noises with the teenagers who are primary HTC One buyers.  

During past year the Taiwanese company has seen slippages in sales targets and that has affected its share price also.  The share price of the HTC corporation which was TWD630 a year ago in March 2012 is now languishing at TWD240.00.  The HTC One is a last ditch attempt from the company to regain the market share it had in 2011.  But so far the news is far from happy for the Taiwanese maker.   Its delivery schedule has also been hit by the issue of supply of Ultrapixel camera for HTC One and that in turn has hit it sales with the new buyers who have turned to Xperia Z or are waiting for Samsung S IV.

The HTC marketing team may sure hope to turn the clock back to 2011.  Blackberry too had pinned hopes on the BB10 operating system and the Z10 and Q10 phones from its stables which it released in February 2013.  But it is also facing problems both on delivery side and the sales.  Q10 is not going to be marketed in US as of yet and Z10 has failed to make an impact in the mobile arena.

The retailers in US have already announced that Z10 is a failure while despite cutting the price of Z10 in UK markets and giving deep discounts prior to its launch in US the sales are not that awe inspiring in UK.  Similar to HTC, Research In Motion the makers of Blackberry are also staring at the barrel in the stock markets.  The share price of RIM is languishing at $13.00 at the moment.

Both the devices are make or break for both the companies but as of yet they seem to be breaking the companies. Read the article on Gartner here to find out who came tops for Q1 2013.

Please post your comments on this article.

Vijay Prabhu