BlackBerry World

The service provided BlackBerry users with an environment to browse, download, and update mobile apps, including third-party applications.

The service went live on 1 April 2009; 15 years ago (2009-04-01), originally named BlackBerry App World.

Later on 21 October 2008, RIM announced at the BlackBerry Developer Conference that the company would open an application store for their devices.

[6] On 4 March 2009, RIM officially named the store 'BlackBerry App World'[7] (previously called the BlackBerry Application Storefront).

On 1 April 2009, at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) trade show, RIM announced that App World had gone live.

[citation needed] On 3 December 2010, Research in Motion announced that daily downloads were two million apps per day.

[citation needed] Application verification was done for BlackBerry World apps about content and quality before is agreed to launch.

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