Turns out BlackBerry ’s proud claim that the new BB10 phones are launch with 70,000 bespoke apps was a bit of a lie — with one of the companionship ’s own men admitting that up to 40 per cent of these are frantic Android port jobs .
Martyn Mallick , BB ’s VP of orbicular alliances and business development , told reporters after the launch result that “ 40 percent [ of BB10 apps ] are wrapped Android applications , ” many of which get along about as part of the recentPort - a - thon enterprisingness , in which anyone with any running app could earn themselves a few quid by smash up together a BB10 interpretation using BlackBerry ’s porting puppet .
Not to note there are plenty of so - called BB10 apps that are little more than shortcuts to mobile web sites . Still , it ’s early days . Anyone who used an Android phone in the peregrine platform ’s first year or two of existence can testify to the amount of sentence it convey to build up a quality app portfolio . [ RWW ]
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