Kristian Salvo is the Senior Business Manager for the Philippines of RIM, Talks about "The BlackBerry opportunity” – mobile opportunity for web developers
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The BlackBerry Opportunity at WebGeek DevCup
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The BlackBerry Opportunity
WebGeek DevCup, Philippines
August 25, 2012
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The Mobile Opportunity
§ Global mobile data traffic trends:
§ Grew 2.3-fold in 2011, more than doubling for the fourth year in a row
§ Will increase 18-fold between 2011 and 2016
(Cisco VNI)
§ By 2014, mobile internet should take over desktop internet usage (Morgan
Stanley Research)
§ 1.16 billion smartphones shipped annually by 2016 (IDC)
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BlackBerry in Asia Pacific
§ BlackBerry will grow double as fast as the Asia Pacific smartphone market
(excluding Japan) over the next four years (IDC, December 2011).
§ BlackBerry is the #1 best-selling smartphone in Southeast Asia in 2011
(Canalys).
§ BlackBerry is the #2 smartphone vendor with 16% market share in the
Philippines in Q1 2012 (Canalys).
§ BlackBerry Curve 8520 is the #1 smartphone in Philippines from Jan –
Jun 2011.
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Why develop for BlackBerry?
§ Over 78 Million subscribers globally
§ There are more than 56 million active BBM users worldwide
§ 165 markets supported
§ 24 languages supported
§ Over 3 Billion apps downloaded
§ Averaging over 177 Million downloads
per month
§ Over 90,000 apps available
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Our Ecosystem Success
§ 986 BBM Connected Apps have generated 270+ Million downloads
§ BlackBerry App World is the #1 Growing Store in the past quarter
(Distimo Q1 2012)
§ 137% growth in registered vendors in the last 4 months
§ Top vendor using in-app payment has earned over $230k
§ Top Vendor using BlackBerry Ad Service has earned
over $240K
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Where developers make money
§ BlackBerry App World has more paid downloads per month than the
Android Market (Yankee Research Group)
§ In Q2 2011, BlackBerry App World generated 43% more average daily
downloads per app than Apple App Store (research2guidance)
§ BlackBerry apps generate 40% more revenue
than Android apps (Vision Mobile)
21. Get started on BlackBerry
www.developer.blackberry.com/html5 / www.blackberry.github.com
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