Amidst today’s many announcements at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, RIM has said that for a limited time, they will be waiving the usual submission fee to get into their official application portal, App World. This move is reminiscent of Palm’s not too long ago, which puts a dent against my comparison of the two companies.
In addition to wooing devs by waiving fees, RIM has announced that they’ll be releasing new tools for OSX, provide an easy revenue stream through their advertising platform, and expand their web-based tools through open-source.