BlackBerry App World has reached 1 billion downloads

App store company Research in Motion, BlackBerry App World, offering programs for BlackBerry smartphones, and more recently for the tablets reached the mark PlayBook 1 billion downloads. The store was launched in April 2009 and demonstrates the relatively slow growth. For comparison, Apple opened its App Store in July 2008, but last week announced that for the entire period of his work was produced 15 billion downloads. In this last 5 billion downloads from the App Store have been made ​​over the past six months. That is, users of Apple products almost every month downloaded as many applications as the owners have downloaded the product from RIM for more than two years. Another big application store Android Market was opened in October 2008 and in June it had already been produced 4.5 billion downloads. Official reports on the reasons for the slow development is not available. Unofficial sources have noted that the application developers for BlackBerry faced with a number of difficulties: lack of a clear motivation and a set of multiple sets are not the most successful developers. For PlayBook added that the lack of explanation and how to develop, as well as the need to buy Vmware Fusion just to generally be able to start. In addition BlackBerry OS platform itself has several features that make it not too attractive. For example, a full-fledged support for 3D will be only the seventh version of the OS, the first phone which will be released later this summer. In this case it is video games have provided growth in the number of downloads for iOS.