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PlayBook Now Has Thousands Of Android Apps, Claims RIM
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According to the company, RIM denies the submissions of copied apps and reaches out to the original developer to let him know about the activity and invite him to submit the app.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012:
Soon after Research In Motion decided to include Android apps in its tablet PlayBook, it started getting positive response. The company said that it already has 'thousands' of Android apps in the Android player launched with PlayBook OS 2.0.
The company is hopeful that the player will encourage the developers to come up with more native apps for the PlayBook. The PlayBook maker claims that there are already 10,000 apps in the BlackBerry App World, which include the Android apps as well. This number is too small as compared to Apple's apps store or the flourishing Windows Phone platform, which has 65,000 apps in its store.
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It is worth mentioning here that RIM has announced an offer of giving free PlayBook to the developers of Android apps against each application. RIM made the announcement of including Android apps in PlayBook software in March last year.
Many developers are curious to add their apps to the PlayBook Android player, said Martyn Mallick, vice president, global alliances and business development, RIM. He said, “This kind of platform gives the developers an opportunity to try various operating systems and reach to the conclusion whether they want to develop natively for it or not.” He said that he was surprised to see the huge number of developers who contacted him within the first few days of the launch of Android player. The developers were happy to see that their apps saw more downloads in a few days on PlayBook as compared to the number of downloads in last few months in Android Market. It is worth mentioning here the developers clearly have much more competition in Android Market with 450,000 apps around.
Developers need to go for RIM's approval to add their Android app into the player, apart from doing some more work. RIM's executives believe that the developers don't mind such hard work as it helps in marking apps that infringe on intellectual property, the executives said. Mallick said that RIM denies the submissions of copied apps and reaches out to the original developer to let him know about the activity and invite him to submit the app.
Diksha P Gupta, EFYTIMES News Network
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