BlackBerry App World has landed

The rumors and speculations that Research In Motion would launch its anticipated BlackBerry App World application store at CTIA were dead on. On Wednesday, the Canadian smartphone and software maker will make BlackBerry App World available for download. RIM's application store seems to enjoy a logical layout, sharing some similarities with the iPhone App Store (mostly in the app discovery department), but also has a dark look all its own. Vicariously step into BlackBerry's App World through our gallery of screenshots: Introducing BlackBerry App World.

Introducing BlackBerry App World--photos

[The_happy_switcher]

Iphone apps: closing in on 30000. RIM? Not so much. A day late and a dollar short, Mr. Crackberry.

[slickuser]

Here comes another copycat after Microsoft!

[seven7dust]

well apps on storm ya that'd be great
but apps on a curve or pearl will have horrendous UI and will be impossible to use !
lets face it without touchscreens
phones are just email machines
all apps need a touchscreen to work optimally
also I wonder how annoying browsing through 100s of apps
in the app world with a directional keypad will be !

[artistjoh]

Yawn. Apart from the the inertia that comes with having been the dominant player for a long time in the enterprise market, RIM has few positives to encourage enthusiasm for their products. Blackberry has been relegated to a catchup role since the iPhone tsunami hit and their introduction of their own app store at this time just reminds me of how far behind they have fallen. It might help them stay afloat but they look like a distressed swimmer in the middle of the ocean hoping desperately that following the other guy will lead them to safety. They seem to have forgotten that what got then success in the first place was doing things differently and leading. Not any more it seems.

[Hep Cat]

Wait - they had to write THEIR OWN Facebook and MySpace apps?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Day late, dollar short. I'm sure it'll be a hit on the 2 or three phones those apps actually work on. iPhone apps? They run on iPhones. All of them.

This is Blackberry's weak attempt to turn over some product.

[AJF4ME]

Since the Storm that I made the mistake of buying is such a POS, I'm sure these apps will be a POS too. And, they cost more than most iPhone apps and none of them are free ! Looks like I'll still be carrying my iPod with me just for the apps.

[darkxeno]

Um i have been looking around it and alot of the apps are free. You need to remember if you dont own the product keep your mouth shut cause it makes you look very poor, and yes i have had an iPhone they where first on the apps so there will be others to come along and try the same idea its all part of the times.

[BruceLawrence]

Just got the 8900 Curve and I love it! Can't wait to try out some apps.

[clumpkin]

Since it looks like only the unemployed apple fanboys have time to post comments let me chime in before I start my day. I have an iPod Touch. I love it but for real work my Blackberry Curve is simply more useful. In fact since Pandora released a client for the Blackberry I don't use my Touch much anymore. I have used Blackberry for years and always lamented more 3rd party development wasn't going on. I welcome a centralized app store although Handago has been pretty simple to use. I am also enjoying the increased development attention the platform is getting that finally let's me use my workhorse device to play a little more than brickbreaker now.

[elllroy]

shame on google, rimm, nokia and palm and microsoft. how come they get away with shamelessly copying apple. all these upcoming appstores are a 1 on 1 copy of the iphone appstore. why don't they get sued? has it become normal to just copy what your competitor does? don't they have their own ideas? disgusting.

[TuxedoBond]

You're joking, right...?

[mike456732]

you must be the uneducated, undiscerning consumer who would probably eat steve jobs poop if he packaged it in white wrapping.

[DnetMHZ]

Oh goodie!, a Ticket Master app.. now you can get ripped off on the go!!

[nefariousrich]

You do realize that competition is a good thing, right?

[J5Chicago]

I was really excited to hear that I may actually get some cool apps for my Blackberry Curve but until more developers jump onboard, the blackberry app world (BAW) is kind of useless. RIM has taken the best of what was already out there and put it under one roof (I don't have a problem with the look, feel and functionality of BAW). But one of the problems with consolidating the best-of-what-was-available is that there really weren't any great apps already in existence. Also, I don't want 8 different all-in-one apps... that's like going to a restaurant that has no speciality and a run of the mill menu, they can't seem to do one thing exceptionally well.

I also don't need a shortcut that opens into the default blackberry browser (which is pretty lame). Let's get some apps that people will actually use please. Would it be too hard to look at the Apple Store, see what people are actually buying/downloading, contact those developers and have the write something for the Blackberry OS? I loves me some entertainment news, but ELLE Canada? No offense to the readers of that publication, but A. I didn't even know there was an ELLE Canada and B. WHY????? Why is that one of your lead off apps?

The BAW has a long way to go before it thinks it can seriously compete with Apple App Store.

[marcurve]

Wow.
It's great how people fail to notice that this app world thing just came out. No **** its not as good as the appstore, its x days old.
There are free apps, and its has a written invitation for people to develop on the main page. Seriously, how is this such a bad thing lol.

Go RIM for finally making one, I'm pumped about this.
A call to all programmers, make moar apps!!!

Oh and apple fanboys, keep up the good work. I love reading the things you all post, they're quite funny.