Rumor: Blackberry to Sack another 2,000 Jobs – Including Developer Relations Team

Blackberry is rumored to be cutting 2,000 at its Waterloo headquarters. The entire Developer Relations team (including Marty Mallick) will be let go, and parts of engineering. One of the main downsides of the elimination of the Developer Relations Team will be the noticeable drop in establishing new relationships with app studios to have them make apps for Blackberry World. Existing developers will also experience decreased support levels.  The end result of this move will dramatically reduce the quality of new apps being made available for anyone who has a Blackberry 10 phone. The Blackberry Developers Team deserves to be fired. In the last six months they have not signed any big apps to be listed in their store. The team is out of touch on the most popular new apps being developed and are fully compatible with Blackberry. Alec Saunders was one of the more vocal members of this team, but since he changed position to be the VP of QNX, things have been very quiet. Good e-Reader is in a position to speak of the lack of quality in the new apps being added to Blackberry World because we maintain our own Blackberry 10 and Blackberry Playbook App Store. We spend countless hours every single day monitoring all of the most compelling new apps and testing them on a wide array of  BB devices. This is why you can find Instagram, Snapchat, FIFA, LINE, Netflix, Adobe Photoshop on our app store and not Blackberry.  Blackberry also has a super complicated system for developers to port their apps over to the BAR format. You have to install a bunch of SDK files, Java and a ton of other small aspects. This provided a barrier for your average developer. Do you know what we did? We made a ridiculously easy (and free) APK to BAR convertor that over 144,000 people use every single day. Basically, we have a better selection of quality apps than even Blackberry does and we have better support tools for developers. It is highly amusing that a four person team can build a better ecosystem than a company of 8,000. Sorry to say, but all of the teams involved in Blackberry World and Developers Relations deserve to be fired. Rumor: Blackberry to Sack another 2,000 Jobs – Including Developer Relations Team is a post from: Good e-Reader

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