The Blackberry Application World (BAW) went live after midnight.
RIM launched the BlackBerry Application store last night (midnight). The bloggers picked up on it and over the last 8 hours, there's been some strong traffic. Actually pretty high/solid traffic for something that won't really get talked about until today. Om Malik has a review with the bottom line being "good enough." Like any good geek, I was on this puppy seconds after it went live and I'm pretty happy with it as well.
An interesting (and, for me expected) observation was the top 25 list and what is on it.
The Bloomberg App is number one as of 8a, followed by Viigo. You'll see the Yellow Pages Business Finder, WorldMate, Google Quick Search, among others in the top 25. A 3 buck fart app ranks high than Google Talk, gee there's a shock. It will be fascinating to watch the top downloads from Apple's Store, RIM and Microsoft continue to evolve as everybody goes after various market segments. There will be lots of demographic and customer information being squeezed out of these lists.
In any event, the folks in Waterloo deserve a hearty well done for saying when it would be released, delivering on that promise, and producing a very respectable V1.0 product.
(3 bucks for a fart app?)
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Yes, and the App World can expect more paid apps than free apps with most of the # of downloads from free apps in the games and entertainment category. However, the App World will see the opposite for social networking apps as those developers imitate Facebook and MySpace and give away apps for free to add head count. Music activities would be interesting to watch since BlackBerry users are downloading music from iTunes and managing it there. ParkVu in Waterloo is trying to bridge that gap.
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