The big rumor from CES 2014 was that Blackberry was creating a dedicated Android section in Blackberry World, to have control
over app distribution.
Not exact matches
JW: The good thing about
apps and
distribution through most of the major hand held and online outlets is that these come with control
over file formats and are not easily pirated.
Distribution channels include our rapidly growing email list of
over 60,000 subscribers and our Android driven
apps with a combined total of
over 600,000 users.
Distribution channels include a rapidly growing email list of
over 60,000 subscribers and an Android driven
apps with a combined total of
over 600,000 users.
The client now has
over 123,000
Apps and has received positive feedback from many of our
distribution partners.
Domestic Television
Distribution over the past few months, and opened a new Appstore in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain, providing access to Android
apps.
In January, Smashwords announced a
distribution agreement with Lexcyle, now owned by Amazon, where Smashwords ebooks are listed in the native ebook catalog of Stanza, the e-reading
app used by
over two million iPhone and iPod Touch customers.
My guess would be that all this means is that it will be much easier for Android developers to port their
Apps over to BB but will still have to use the
App World (or various online BB channels) for
distribution to BlackBerry and not the Marketplace so they'll have to play by the same rules as the current BlackBerry developers.
However, even with encrypted
apps, there can be issues; the popular messaging
app, Telegram, which uses 256 - bit encryption, was recently taken off Apple's App Store due to concerns over child pornography distribution, although it was subsequently reinstat
app, Telegram, which uses 256 - bit encryption, was recently taken off Apple's
App Store due to concerns over child pornography distribution, although it was subsequently reinstat
App Store due to concerns
over child pornography
distribution, although it was subsequently reinstated.