RIM attracts 15k apps for BlackBerry 10 in two days

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15 January 2013

The BlackBerry store should be well stocked with apps when Research In Motion (RIM) launches BlackBerry 10 at the end of this month.

The company held an event over recently where it offered app developers incentives to port their programs to the BlackBerry 10 platform and managed to attract 15,000 app submissions.

"Well there you have it. 37.5 hours in, we hit 15,000 apps for this port-athon. Feel like I’ve run a marathon. Thanks to all the devs!" wrote Alec Saunders, vice president of developer relations at RIM, in a Twitter message.

The "port-athon" event was held in two parts.

One was aimed at Android developers and the other at apps written in other platforms, including Appcelerator, Maramalade, Sencha, jQuery, PhoneGap and Qt.

RIM was offering $100 (€75) for each app ported and subsequently approved for sale in the BlackBerry 10 app store, up to certain limits. Developers could also win BlackBerry 10 development handsets and a trip to RIM’s BlackBerry Jam Europe developer event.

RIM is due to launch the BlackBerry 10 OS and unveil the first handsets to support the platform at a news conference in New York on Jan. 30.

IDG News Service

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