Mike Lazaridis just took the stage and he is sharing some great statistics on BlackBerry usage
Mike Lazaridis is sharing some great info on BlackBerry usage
He is touting that BlackBerry is # one in huge countries around the world from North America to South America and around the world.
250,000 BlackBerry Enterprise Servers
28 million active BBM users
1.5 million new blackberry users a month
115 million BlackBerry smartphones sold
50 million active subscribers
35 million app world users in 75 countries
1.5 million apps a day
carrier billing is key
Lazaridis just announced in app payments and a new advertising service
Now we have the new BlackBerry WebWorks framework that will replace widgets and take away the need for java skills and develop apps in hours or days for small communities. They can then add in app payments and all the other technology like Push bringing the simplicity of HTML with Javascript and their superapps technology.
