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The infamous Blackberry line of mobile phones from Research In Motion, commonly referred to as the “Crackberry,” is getting a development push from RIM. With the mobile phones industry redefining itself with more features and computing power, RIM wants to ensure that their mobiles can compete on the same playing field.
Application Programming Interfaces (API’s), the heart of the development platform, are essential to allowing third-party developers to create new applications for any given device (the Blackberry in this case).
These API’s have been added to the BlackBerry Java Development Environment, which has since been downloaded by over 125,000 developers. That’s a good start for the new BlackBerry JDE, and should help launch a host of new mapping, GPS, gaming, and media applications. RIM is also planning to release additional API’s, for messaging and 3D graphics, in the near future.
RIM’s push to provide a complete mobile computing platform seems to be off to a good start. You gotta hand it to RIM for their foresight and commitment in opening up the development platform to third-parties. We all know of at least one particular company that could stand to take some notes on this matter (cough…Apple…cough).
About The Author
Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
