Every few months or so RIM has announced some stats on how many downloads App World sees on average per day. Alex Kinsella, Product Manager at RIM for BlackBerry App World, mentioned on Twitter that App World is now pushing 3 million app downloads a day. That is some pretty impressive growth from RIM. Here are the stats we have learned until know with dates:
- 1 Million downloads a day – July 30th 2010 when RIM announced App World 2.0 Beta
- 1.5 Million downloads a day – Sep 27th 2010 at BlackBerry DevCon in San Francisco
- 2 Million downloads a day – Feb 14th 2011 when App World was expanded to 100 Markets
- 3 Million downloads a day – March 22nd 2011 via Alex Kinsella
Pretty impressive work for RIM. They need to keep up this consistent growth and usage of App World to compete in the mobile game. Keep up the good work guys!
dpr ( View Profile) - Posts: 769
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 5:31 AM EST from my BlackBerry 8530
App World really needs to push their apps, not so much as quantity, but quality and more creative integration with other apps. A widget that has the media player (play, pause, stop), camera, and voice recorder on the home screen would be nice.
jym ( View Profile) - Posts: 136
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 5:49 AM EST
they were all upgrades to appworld
altaera ( View Profile) - Posts: 154
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 6:35 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9800 | OS 6.0.0.448
Wow! It’s true that lately I found myself downloading apps from app world. It seems the quality is just getting better.
BarracudaBob ( View Profile) - Posts: 1020
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 6:58 AM EST
How many of these “apps” were just lame eBook readers for a specific book? They shouldn’t even be allowed in App World.
BarracudaBob ( View Profile) - Posts: 1020
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 7:01 AM EST
I should pay more attention when reading. It’s downloads not apps in App World. Duh!
It probably is a lot of upgrades to programs. I see updates almost daily for DriveSafe.ly and a few others seem to get updated at least once a week. They should count how many NEW downloads there are.
DavidB ( View Profile) - Posts: 1791
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 7:17 AM EST
It’s important, yes, but MUCH MORE important would be to get the 2011 BlackBerry 6.1 devices launched. Look at the time frame we’re talking here RIM! People are coming out of their 2 year contract and you have essentially NOTHING new and hot to offer them, and it has been like this for well over 6 months. And all those new devices are faster and have far more RAM and can thus download many more apps. Me, I’m carrying both a Storm and a Tour, itching to upgrade both, and you have nothing to offer. Sorry, no, a Torch or a Style isn’t it for me, and a Bold is just too “old” feeling. And a Curve? Forget it.
Come on RIM, wow us at CTIA with a final day “oh, and one more thing” sort of last minute press announcement of a half dozen new devices REALLY coming this summer! I can hold off my urge to go Android for a little bit longer, but it’s getting harder every day to resist.
kiddo2050 ( View Profile) - Posts: 813
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 9:02 AM EST
DavidB I went iPhone a couple of years ago and it was terrible. Back to BB. Maybe you just have to go to Android, but you know the new devices are coming in summer and you will likely regret your choice when summer comes.
DavidB ( View Profile) - Posts: 1791
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 9:31 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
@kiddo:
I hear ya. And I know the new devices are coming. Problem is, they are year old plus 2nd generation single core cpu’s, while all the hot new Androids coming this summer are 3rd generation dual core. I’ve been a big BlackBerry fan for many years, and I WANT RIM to succeed, but honestly other than PlayBook their hardware is a generation behind and the gap looks to be growing.
Marc Paradise ( View Profile) - Posts: 539
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 10:25 AM EST
At least based on cursory playing around, I would say that Android needs dual cores to keep it performant. With some exceptions, BB’s have performed well on 3-year-old CPUs. The significant speed bumps this summer should keep them competitive for software that can take advantage of it.
That said, it’s only a matter of time until OS7…
Joe257 ( View Profile) - Posts: 628
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 10:53 AM EST
Wow! Fantastic! A 50% increase in just over a month!!!! Very, very impressive. The PlayBook isn’t even out yet.
mkconnors2008 ( View Profile) - Posts: 530
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 12:39 PM EST
Decent increase. Based on an exponential increase going forward, it would look rather promising for RIM
mkconnors2008 ( View Profile) - Posts: 530
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 12:45 PM EST
Oh and I think APPLE might sue over the APP WORLD name. Not sure if anyone saw that they were suing Android over their APP STORE name. lol
DavidB ( View Profile) - Posts: 1791
Posted: March 23, 2011 at 2:04 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9630
Apple is suing Amazon, not “Android”.
It would be quite a stretch to apply Apple’s disputed trademark over “App Store” to “App World”. Extending it to Amazon’s “Appstore”, maybe…