BlackBerry Limited, today announced that the Amazon Appstore will be available with the launch of the BlackBerry 10.3 operating system this fall, greatly expanding access to thousands of the most popular apps and games to BlackBerry customers.
BlackBerry To Expand Application Ecosystem By Making Amazon Appstore Available on BlackBerry 10 Smartphones.
BlackBerry - Amazon Deal:
Strategic Move Will Give BlackBerry Users Access to the Vast Selection of Android Apps in the Amazon Appstore, While Enabling BlackBerry to Focus on Enterprise Application Development.
- Amazon (AMZN) Appstore will be available with the launch of the BlackBerry (BBRY) 10.3 operating system this fall.
- BlackBerry has about 130K apps, but is missing key ones like Pintrest, Netflix, and Groupon, all of which Amazon - with roughly 240K apps - has access to.
- "I do not have to spend time, energy and money" developing apps Amazon offers, says CEO John Chen. "Given I want to financially turn around the company and focus on the enterprise space, this is perfect for us."
See here BlackBerry's Press release: BlackBerry
