Do Apps Made Blackberry The Last Option For Developers?
Blackberry app store has always been underestimated by the critics and other mobile experts
. As per the market trends Apple app store and Androids Google Play are the most trendy app stores of mobile apps industry. The reason for their glittering success is none other than the millions of apps and some outstanding hardware features to support them.
Apple basically is a hardware development company but surprisingly it gained tremendous popularity because of diligent iPhone apps development and further fuelled by iPad apps development which made iOs among the most desired platform for the mobile apps developers. Its development initially was bit tricky but with time Apple launched some amazing APIs and SDKs which made the job of developers quite easy. When compared with Blackberry software development, the developers were very bit fussy about BlackBerry platform as it was very difficult to manage its complex APIs and change in SDKs with every new version.
Next came Android OS, it was product of Google and was launched in competence with Apple iOS. Android slowly steadily emerged and now it is a sheer competitor of Apple iOS in the market. Blackberry Custom apps development somewhere was badly hit by these new emerging platforms. As Blackberry always said that it is focused on quality rather than quantity whereas Apple and Android both were focusing on quantity so as to give as much as possible to its users. It was a big downfall for Blackberry when it got over lapped by Apple and Android just because they had more number of apps to flaunt along inspite of the fact that both borrowed much similar functionality like calendar, email and messaging features from it.
So, we can say that few years back apps were really the reason of blackberry apps developers to make a switch to other platforms. But now when BlackBerry saw almost more than 3billion downloads from BlackBerry app store in July 2012, where it lacked to come back in the competition. The reasons could be many:
1. Undeniable success of iPhone and Android devices.
2. Innumerable apps in Apple iTunes and Androids Google Play
3. Better developer community support for both platforms.
4. Focusing on both entertainment and enterprise need of users.
5. Easy development environments for both platforms.
These reasons are that typical that BlackBerry cannot handle but somewhere they missed the chance to strike at correct time. Now is the time when Apple sold almost 5 million sets in just one week and Android is gaining emerging markets very swiftly due to its cut down prices and outstanding features and apps. So, now BlackBerry apps developers really have to bring what iPhone and Android developers have not given users yet otherwise it would be very difficult for it to get back in competition.