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In an effort to further expand the Blackberry World’s app offering, Blackberry is planning to upgrade the runtime of their new platform for it to be able support Android Jelly bean apps in the future.

One of the things that the Blackberry platform has always been criticized for is its scarcity of popular apps. The main reason why it is such is because the Blackberry OS’s runtime is still stuck at Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). In effect, app developers cannot port their app to since their apps are already designed for latter iterations of the Android OS.

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But that’s about to change as Blackberry is planning to bring their platform’s runtime up to speed with Android‘s runtime. They have their work cut out for them, but if they succeed in this venture, it’ll open a lot of doors for the new platform and eventually bring in more quality apps to the Blackberry World.

As of the time of writing, the project is still on the planning phase and the Canadian company is still mum on when they plan to roll-out the update.

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In line with the upcoming launch of the BlackBerry 10, RIM has recently announced the new name of the BlackBerry App World which is now called BlackBerry World. Of course, rebranding their app market isn’t gonna be enough to elevate the OS to the next level. So what will? Investing heavily on the devs to ensure quality apps for the BlackBerry World.

RIM is really stepping up their game in preparation for the upcoming launch of the BlackBerry 10 OS. But instead of just trotting the tried and tested path of bringing the best communication app in the business, the Canadian company is trying a more app-centric approach that would hopefully bring them good results. Below are some of their schemes to encourage developers to create apps for the upcoming OS.

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BlackBerry 10k Commitment and Appcelerator Offer

To entice developers to bring their A-game when developing apps for the BB10, RIM is running an incentive program called 10K commitment. What the program does is if the developer, in compliance of the program’s terms and conditions, earns a minimum of $1,000 on his app over the span of 12 months, RIM will pay the difference between the dev’s earnings and the $10,000 for the app.

In addition to the BlackBerry 10k Commitment, RIM has partnered with Appcelerator to give developers more reason to push for excellence with their apps. With this partnership, RIM plans to reward developers for porting their app to the BlackBerry world. For more information on how to be part of this, you can check Appcelerator’s site here.

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BB Dev Alpha device and SDK Update

The company will also provide a BlackBerry Dev Alpha C device for developers who are interested in creating/porting an app to a handset with physical QWERTY keyboard. For those who are already using a Dev Alpha device, they are entitled to swap their device for a limited edition BlackBerry 10 handset given that they were able to meet a RIM’s eligibility criteria. Information about these requirements can be found here.

To ensure that each developer has the right set of tools needed to build quality and hopefully viral apps, RIM also updated the BlackBerry 10 SDK. This update enables devs to install BlackBerry 10 IDE to Mac OS X and will improve the Visual Studio plug-in along with other functionalities of the SDK.

There’s no doubt that RIM has a lot of catching up to do, but with a good game plan and a proper mind set, we think that they might just have a shot at reclaiming their old glory with the release of BlackBerry 10.

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