The application store has more then 90,000 apps for sale

Jul 7, 2012 14:31 GMT  ·  By

In an attempt to improve its image among smartphone manufacturers and communication service providers, Research In Motion (RIM) has just announced its BlackBerry App World exceeded 3 billion downloads.

The new milestone is pretty impressive for RIM especially if we take into consideration that the previous 2 billion mark was achieved back in April. This means that the Canadian company was able to increase App World downloads by 1 billion in just three months.

According to RIM, “three billion app downloads averages out to over 2.5 million downloads each day. What’s even more important – and impressive – is that the number of daily downloads continues to increase. It took 786 days to reach the one billion mark, 210 days to reach two billion, and only 176 days to reach the three billion number.”

It is also worth mentioning that the 3 billion mark does not include apps that were downloaded from third party BlackBerry app stores, or those pushed internally at companies around the world, or those downloaded directly from the web.

The company announced three months ago that the BlackBerry App World has around 70,000 apps available for download, but today they revealed its app store now features more than 90,000 apps for smartphone and PlayBook.

Moreover, RIM insisted to thanks those more than 28,000 BlackBerry App World vendors and the app store's team for this notable achievement.

The latest statistics show that RIM has currently around 78 million BlackBerry subscribers, but the number is constantly decreasing due to various problems that the company faced in the last few years.

RIM promised a couple of weeks ago it will deliver a new BlackBerry 10 OS by the end of the year, but the company backtracked earlier this week and announced the first devices powered by the next version of its operating system will be launched on the market as early as Q1 2013.