Summary: BlackBerry’s pay-to-port campaign to drive up the number of BlackBerry 10 OS apps is winding down.
BlackBerry 10 ‘port-a-thon’ adds 15,000 submissions to the App World
BlackBerry has paid out $ 4m in rewards to developers for porting existing apps to its BlackBerry 10 OS and will now wind down the campaign.
The company
Announced the payment milestone on Friday, meaning the port-a-thon events it has held since the beginning of the year have generated around 40,000 BB10 apps to populate its BlackBerry World app store.
BlackBerry developers offered $ 100 per ported app, up to 20 submissions. Once approved and made available in the app store, the developer would gain a $ 100 reward.
A good deal of Those apps were gained in January, shortly after the first port-a-thon, when BlackBerry netted 15,000 app submissions in the course of 37 and a half hours. A week later landed a further 19,000 apps in a similar timeframe, thanks to the port-a-thons.
BlackBerry has extended the program several times this year, and initially only budgeted for $ 500,000 in payments. It will now wind down the scheme and pay out to developers That submitted apps. The company will not initiate any new payments or shipments after June 30, though existing pending payments will continue beyond then.
The next phase of the BlackBerry’s developer program will focus on making gaming apps more successful.
Liam Tung
Liam Tung is an Australian business technology journalist living a few too many Swedish miles north of Stockholm for his liking. He gained a bachelors degree in economics and arts (cultural studies) at Sydney’s Macquarie University, but hacked (without Norse or malicious code for that matter) his way into a career as an enterprise technology, security and telecommunications journalist with ZDNet Australia. These days Liam is a full time freelance technology journalist who writes for several Australian publications, Including the Sydney Morning Herald Online. Primarily he’s interested in how information technology impacts the way business and people communicate, trade, and consume.
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