Developers Defecting From BlackBerry

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jfruhlinger writes "Mobile app developers who build for multiple platforms need to figure out how to conserve their resources somehow, and many are choosing to do so by not bothering to build apps for BlackBerry phones. It's a combination of declining market share and the general difficulty of building apps for the BlackBerry platform, one developer told Bloomberg: 'RIM brought in a touchscreen and mixed it with a thumbwheel, a keyboard and shortcut keys, it made it really difficult and expensive to develop across devices.'"http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.slashdot.org%2Fst ory%2F11%2F06%2F27%2F2018225%2FDevelopers-Defecting-From-BlackBerry%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3D facebook) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Developers+Defecting+From+BlackBerry%3 A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FjVr87j)
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