RIM's Developer Bribery is Working

I don't see what's bad about this - people want a platform with apps. If the platform is the most advanced and user friendly - but there aren't any apps for it - it will fail.

Everyone does this in one way or another. For example Microsoft's push in universities and all those hackatons and competitions which result with students filling the app store. There are a lot of app competitions for Android as well - though they are organized by manufacturers (e.g. Samsung) or by mobile operators.

I think android devs should be careful! It’s deperate to the point that people are illegally converting android apps to the blackberry format without the orignal dev’s permission.I wonder how many of the so called 10,000 submissions were converted with the permission of the original devs.

There’s probably lots! Here is one of many apps being ported illegally. Some of these pirates are selling free apps under their name! This app is a stolen port! http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/20081493/?mo...

of this original android app which goes for free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgam...

It’s one thing to port apps without permission, but then selling the free apps too and earning the profits! If you see the app world right now, there’s many apps like these in similar situations!

I think there might be a similar issue with illegal ports of iOS apps too!

http://crackberry.com/developer-gets-ios-apps-running-blackb...

You mean incentive program?