- http://mashable.com/2012/04/06/windo...ft-incentives/
MIcrosoft is paying from 60k to 600,000 to developers to develop apps. They paid a 3rd party to develop a 4square app with foursquares input and consent.
Ive been of the notion that RIM should do this for a while now. BUt not a whole lot, just for the few big ones.CairnsRock and filmansantiago like this.04-06-12 05:51 PMLike 2 - If you build it, they will come.
More devs will sign on when all of RIM's devices share a common OS like Android and Apple. There are far too many devices, screen sizes and so on. It's more work, work equals time and time is money. This is another one of those "Common Sense" things. Sure RIM could spend some problems away but just like anything in life, they need a LONG term solution. BB1004-06-12 07:47 PMLike 4 - Actually WP7 has been on the market for less than 18 months, and less than a year in some markets with respect to having more than a single handset available. It also has only had its major partner rolling out handsets for a few months. In that time its app store has grown from zero to 80000. That is hardly a long time and Microsoft has made it clear from the start that they are taking the same long haul strategy they took with XBOX. As to the idea of them paying some developers, if anyone really bothered to check, they would find that Apple, Google, and the hardware companies using android pay developers as well. Microsoft is not paying all developers - they are paying key developers to assure that essential apps are covered. It is good business.....
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04-06-12 08:31 PMLike 2 - Actually WP7 has been on the market for less than 18 months, and less than a year in some markets with respect to having more than a single handset available. It also has only had its major partner rolling out handsets for a few months. In that time its app store has grown from zero to 80000. That is hardly a long time and Microsoft has made it clear from the start that they are taking the same long haul strategy they took with XBOX. As to the idea of them paying some developers, if anyone really bothered to check, they would find that Apple, Google, and the hardware companies using android pay developers as well. Microsoft is not paying all developers - they are paying key developers to assure that essential apps are covered. It is good business.....
They've been offering incentives to developers before WP7 devices even released, yet here we are...04-06-12 08:36 PMLike 0 - You do know that MS owns skype right? Also WP devices with FFCs have only been available for 6 months or so. And yes here we are with WP already with more apps then BB.04-06-12 10:44 PMLike 0
- With the exception of skype and a few other key apps, H*LL NO Rim should not be paying off devs to write apps. Rim is not rich like MS. I want Rim to stay in the black, not in the red. Plus, the money would be much better spent on marketing and rebuilding the damaged blackberry brand than on hiring developers to create apps for the pb.04-06-12 10:59 PMLike 0
- stupidest move ever. you reward developers who can give you the app you want, and not throw money at anyone who creates anything. i blame rim for the existence of so many crappy and buggy apps with no support on appworld.
not to mention big app companies work in teams. what on earth are they going to do with a pb? clearly what rim did appealed to novice app developers or sole developers who just couldnt care less what they developed. i heard of this guy who created a android app JUST to port it over for a free pb.
you can't blame the developers. can't believe rim didnt forsee this coming. even if they wanted to throw away playbooks like that they should have considered the fact that the end user suffers from all the crap in appworld.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk04-06-12 11:08 PMLike 0 - If you build it, they will come.
More devs will sign on when all of RIM's devices share a common OS like Android and Apple. There are far too many devices, screen sizes and so on. It's more work, work equals time and time is money. This is another one of those "Common Sense" things. Sure RIM could spend some problems away but just like anything in life, they need a LONG term solution. BB10VanCity778 likes this.04-06-12 11:18 PMLike 1 - stupidest move ever. you reward developers who can give you the app you want, and not throw money at anyone who creates anything. i blame rim for the existence of so many crappy and buggy apps with no support on appworld.
not to mention big app companies work in teams. what on earth are they going to do with a pb? clearly what rim did appealed to novice app developers or sole developers who just couldnt care less what they developed. i heard of this guy who created a android app JUST to port it over for a free pb.
you can't blame the developers. can't believe rim didnt forsee this coming. even if they wanted to throw away playbooks like that they should have considered the fact that the end user suffers from all the crap in appworld.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk04-06-12 11:21 PMLike 0 - If you build it, they will come.
More devs will sign on when all of RIM's devices share a common OS like Android and Apple. There are far too many devices, screen sizes and so on. It's more work, work equals time and time is money. This is another one of those "Common Sense" things. Sure RIM could spend some problems away but just like anything in life, they need a LONG term solution. BB1004-06-12 11:35 PMLike 0 -
I always thought that RIM was playing a numbers game and fully expected that a sizable proportion of apps produced this way would not do well. I thought that they wanted to attract dedicated people like me to the platform (and several other developers who frequent this forum). RIM couldn't very well have dialed us up and asked us to submit an app. We were all new to the platform early last year and were absolute unknowns.
But you have shown me the error of my ways and I am truly sorry for causing so much pain and suffering. Sorry...
k04-06-12 11:38 PMLike 3 -
BB10 is what is being called a "unified" operating system. RIM is developing a standard set of development tools so that apps can be written once and they will be guaranteed to run on all future devices. Apple developers have had this competitive advantage for many years now and, believe me, we like where RIM is going with this.Laura Knotek likes this.04-06-12 11:47 PMLike 1 - I have a simple question; why should a company spend there resource to create an application for an OS that don't has a future? Just in a couple months the BB10 platform will be released with a new structure, it will use C/C++. I'm a Computer programmer and can tell that the BB10 will be amazing, and I believe with the new OS most of the application will reach our applications market. Even I started to think to write some useful application for this new platform. And I would like to add that the big numbers in a App Store doesn't matter, important are the qualities of application that are available.Magnesus and Laura Knotek like this.04-07-12 12:05 AMLike 2
- I am so sorry for making you suffer - I now see that I was wrong to develop an app for RIM. Does it make any difference that my app has been quite successful and has returned enough royalties to RIM to pay for several dozen PlayBooks Should I return my "free" PlayBook or will you allow me to keep it?
I always thought that RIM was playing a numbers game and fully expected that a sizable proportion of apps produced this way would not do well. I thought that they wanted to attract dedicated people like me to the platform (and several other developers who frequent this forum). RIM couldn't very well have dialed us up and asked us to submit an app. We were all new to the platform early last year and were absolute unknowns.
But you have shown me the error of my ways and I am truly sorry for causing so much pain and suffering. Sorry...
k
Thank you brother for your work. Thanks for your time on the forums.BuzzStarField likes this.04-07-12 12:05 AMLike 1 - I have a simple question; why should a company spend there resource to create an application for an OS that don't has a future? Just in a couple months the BB10 platform will be released with a new structure, it will use C/C++. I'm a Computer programmer and can tell that the BB10 will be amazing, and I believe with the new OS most of the application will reach our applications market. Even I started to think to write some useful application for this new platform. And I would like to add that the big numbers in a App Store doesn't matter, important are the qualities of application that are available.
Ok where in the playbook section, so the device here is already running the qnx os which bb10 is. Are you writting apps for the playbook?04-07-12 12:16 AMLike 0 - Fragmentation is a major problem with BBOS. Apps needed to be re-written each time a new device was introduced. So if we wrote an app to run in OS6, we had to re-write it so that it could run on OS7. Not a good situation if a developer wants to make money.
BB10 is what is being called a "unified" operating system. RIM is developing a standard set of development tools so that apps can be written once and they will be guaranteed to run on all future devices. Apple developers have had this competitive advantage for many years now and, believe me, we like where RIM is going with this.
I hope that bb10 is closer to the bbos than the pb os is.04-07-12 12:41 AMLike 0 - Using HTML5 would be a solution because it would make the application/game work on many different platforms. HTML5 is quite slow though on mobile devices. I plan on checking this route soon though because I just finished a complex Mahjong game using HTML5 canvas for a client (who agrees for having it not exclusively ). I will try to make it into an application for Playbook soon. If Qt will be used on BB10 it should be easy with QtWebKit which is quite powerful (shame it doesn't have webGL yet though - that would make making games much easier, right now I use canvas).
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04-07-12 01:40 AMLike 0 - I am so sorry for making you suffer - I now see that I was wrong to develop an app for RIM. Does it make any difference that my app has been quite successful and has returned enough royalties to RIM to pay for several dozen PlayBooks Should I return my "free" PlayBook or will you allow me to keep it?
I always thought that RIM was playing a numbers game and fully expected that a sizable proportion of apps produced this way would not do well. I thought that they wanted to attract dedicated people like me to the platform (and several other developers who frequent this forum). RIM couldn't very well have dialed us up and asked us to submit an app. We were all new to the platform early last year and were absolute unknowns.
But you have shown me the error of my ways and I am truly sorry for causing so much pain and suffering. Sorry...
k
by the way, even though I dont have your app... THANK YOU for developing for the PB. If there were more people like you the world would be a better place.
(also i think that what RIM could have done was make the offer of the free PB include a minimum number of app sales/ratings ... it was great to get apps, but not all the apps were worth a dollar, not to mention a PB)04-07-12 01:47 AMLike 0 - I have a simple question; why should a company spend there resource to create an application for an OS that don't has a future? Just in a couple months the BB10 platform will be released with a new structure, it will use C/C++. I'm a Computer programmer and can tell that the BB10 will be amazing, and I believe with the new OS most of the application will reach our applications market. Even I started to think to write some useful application for this new platform. And I would like to add that the big numbers in a App Store doesn't matter, important are the qualities of application that are available.
2 - Not one screen size, however I believe RIM announced that they would be only releasing phones with a certain resolution, meaning that any app developed for the standard 1024x600 will run on the PlayBook, as well as all BB10 phones. I could be wrong, but I definitely think I remember hearing this.
Fragmentation is a major problem with BBOS. Apps needed to be re-written each time a new device was introduced. So if we wrote an app to run in OS6, we had to re-write it so that it could run on OS7. Not a good situation if a developer wants to make money.
BB10 is what is being called a "unified" operating system. RIM is developing a standard set of development tools so that apps can be written once and they will be guaranteed to run on all future devices. Apple developers have had this competitive advantage for many years now and, believe me, we like where RIM is going with this.04-07-12 02:38 AMLike 0
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