Companies don't hesitate to bragging numbers when it comes to defending their platforms from applications That an application store has as many or as many thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of these contents is usually the norm. But what is true in those figures? Should we trust? It seems that this is not always the case, at least not in the case of the battered BlackBerry, where a curious case related to this issue has just been discovered.
The fact has been uncovered by a BlackBerry app blog, where they have come across the prolific output of the developer namedS4BB. An account that you have provided and published on BlackBerry World, the application marketplace for this platform , the dizzying figure of 47,000 contents A most surprising figure, being a good base for the total of 120,000 applicationsposted on this platform. But there is a trick.
And it is that, on the web page where this fact has been discovered, they have been able to analyze the production of S4BB, at least some of its applications, realizing the poor quality of these Of course, the contents touch all areas, finding entertainment applications and entertainment such as fart sound applications, utilities to ppassword-protect other applications, books, links toweb pages tourist guides, audiobooks and many more.Thus until reaching 47,000 titles
Apparently, the problem or event arises from the few requirements that BlackBerry poses to developers before publishing applications in its store. Thus, there seems to be no limit to the number of applications and content that a developer can publish and sell through BlackBerry World, leading to cases such as S4BB, which has managed to flood the application market, being the most striking.
Leaving aside the issue of the quality of applications published by S4BB, which appears to be a development company besieged inHong Kong, it is evident how little control BlackBerry has of its own platform. Another of the problems that must be added to their current battered situation, remembering that the company has been put up for sale
However, the worst thing about this situation is that it directly affects users, who can run into a large number of alternatives, but without any type of quality, finding contents that bordering on illegality An issue that occurs with many of the applications of S4BB, finding only some well-worked and complete ones, but many others that they only act as a link to a web page that is not even their own. All this taking into account that many of these contents are paid for
In short, one more problem for this company that seems not to raise its head. And it is that one of the main points to achieve user trust is to offer valid and quality content Something that, seen what has been seen, is far from BlackBerry World, where they can boast a good total number of applications, although it is a fact that must be taken with tweezers.
