Product Management: The BlackBerry Application Platform

[Eugen]

Good day, We are planning to start our own product. But I wonder that there are no any statistics about current OS versions using. We think that 4.2+ and newer will cover 90% of the market. But maybe someone has this information already. It would be great to have shared it. Thanks

[rdelgado]

Hi Eugen,

We are having the same issue and I am wondering if you ever got a response or you were able to find any other information.

Thanks

Raul

[andrejcher]

Maybe this will help http://chirashi.zensay.com/2009/12/platform-specific-download-statistics-for-blackberries/

and seems there is no reason develop for version less than 4.5

[Eugen]

Thanks Andrej!

Really interesting link.

[Marc_Paradise]

While that is useful information, I would not base decisions on that alone. Remember that this only a slice of users who have downloaded a specific application to their Blackberry devices.  This means it's liimted to the number of people installing external apps, and more specifically those who have an interest in whatever that app does...

[Eugen]

Hi Marc,

You are absolutely right. But take in mind also that we are going to sell own application and could be that our customers will show similar or wise versa statistics

[qwavel]

It would also be good to have stats on BIS vs. BES vs. neither.