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This one has started to get me peeved.
The rim management may have spent days and days creating an ecosystem for devs to easily convert an android app to playbook and its all for nothing.
The temple run game devs have no plan to convert the game although it is so simple.
I am angry.
Yeah, we can convert .apk to .bar but why?
I mean an official thing is better yea?
Btw, on my website I will start a petition if you guys want me to
Grr.......
Sent from my BlackBerry 9860 on 7.1.0.34203-30-12 08:09 AM - Because playbook is not profitable for them
How is it not profitable?
1% of android devs make $1000 a year.
13% of blackberry devs make $100000 a year.
Big difference huh?
We may not have apps....
Quality ones make a heck lot of $$$$$
Your point is pointless. I am making a petition after one more reply.
Sent from my BlackBerry 9860 on 7.1.0.34203-30-12 10:09 AM - Ok guys. Listen up,
Call all it friends with pb and fellow crackberrians.
We need at least 500 for this to work
We will tell on twitter. On everything!
Add me:
twitter.com/bbthemesx
facebook.com/bbthemesx
bbthemesx.com
[email protected]
If any crackberry writer is reading this, please be kind and help us promote this.
Its for the better of our playbooks
I'm making the post. My app for posting is weird. Trying my best guys!
Will post petition link.
We need to send angry emails.
All you need is to comment!
Sent from my BlackBerry 9860 on 7.1.0.342 with Tapatalk and my fingers03-30-12 11:02 AM - Why would it not be profitable for them? unlike ipad and android users, i dont think a lot of playbook users take the risk of rooting or jailbreaking their devices to get free apps. blackberry users actually pay money to get the apps because we want to maintain the security that rim offers. all of my friends with apple devices have the full version on their jailbroken devices and the only money they spent was on the electricity when they had to plug in their laptops. did the app developer make money from that?Because playbook is not profitable for them
sure, we may have a smaller market share but most of us using blackberry devices are actually willing to pay money to get good apps. not just for games but for an overall user experience.03-30-12 11:13 AM - I totally agree on some of the comments here that putting a high quality app on PB is profitable. If you look at some major popular apps on iOS and Android, some are free (Draw Something and Temple Run) while some are cheaper compared to the same games brought to PB.
In 3 days since it's release on Droid, Temple Run has already accumulated 1 million downloads and all of that are free. What if they release that to PB (I'm sure there are at least 1 million who owns PB) and charge us .99c or $1.99? That is 1-2 million dollars in profit!!! And if they decide to also release on BB phones that triples or quadruple that amount.
It's SAD that we have to write petition and beg but we have to do what is needed to get these games to our tablet!!!
03-30-12 11:42 AM - Not that simple.I totally agree on some of the comments here that putting a high quality app on PB is profitable. If you look at some major popular apps on iOS and Android, some are free (Draw Something and Temple Run) while some are cheaper compared to the same games brought to PB.
In 3 days since it's release on Droid, Temple Run has already accumulated 1 million downloads and all of that are free. What if they release that to PB (I'm sure there are at least 1 million who owns PB) and charge us .99c or $1.99? That is 1-2 million dollars in profit!!! And if they decide to also release on BB phones that triples or quadruple that amount.
It's SAD that we have to write petition and beg but we have to do what is needed to get these games to our tablet!!!
First, a very, very small fraction of the millions will actually buy the game. Then, you have to figure in App World's cut.
Android's tried and tested ad revenue system works for developers (as does in-app purchasing).
And then, the cost of support. People forget that the more a developer sells, the more people will complain about issues, deserved or not. You have to spend time (read: money) to support the app after purchases.
When it all boils down to it, the "millions" we assume not work out for the developers themselves. The numbers underline this. Developers know more about this than we do, I believe.
One developer also told me that what the Playbook exposed to him was the fact that stealing pay-apks was not restricted to Android.
In any case, if there is a petition, I am signing it... let's spread the wealth!03-30-12 12:14 PM - I AgreeI totally agree on some of the comments here that putting a high quality app on PB is profitable. If you look at some major popular apps on iOS and Android, some are free (Draw Something and Temple Run) while some are cheaper compared to the same games brought to PB.
In 3 days since it's release on Droid, Temple Run has already accumulated 1 million downloads and all of that are free. What if they release that to PB (I'm sure there are at least 1 million who owns PB) and charge us .99c or $1.99? That is 1-2 million dollars in profit!!! And if they decide to also release on BB phones that triples or quadruple that amount.
It's SAD that we have to write petition and beg but we have to do what is needed to get these games to our tablet!!!
I mean lets just say only 50k people purchase the APP for $1.99
that's about $100k minus RIMs cut which is still $70,000.
Thats a lot of money for very little work. Will take them less
then a Day to Make the Android version work on PB and summit to RIM.
why these Devs are holding back on this money is beyond me...03-30-12 07:41 PM
