This morning’s discussion focused on the announcements RIM made at their developer conference yesterday.
RIM’s application store is coming in March, and developers will get 80% of the revenue from the store, as opposed to the 70% that Apple is offering.
Plus: New Web Tools Become Available (still using Java as foundation); WebSignals allows developers to incorporate push notification in any application, and upgraded developer tools.
During his talk Mike Lazaradis mentioned that Blackberry had 54% US smartphone market share last month.
On the Calliflower Conference Call this morning: Molly Schonthal, Sergio Meinardi, Arshad Merali, Dan York, Jim Courtney, Craik Pyke, Jeanette Fisher, Bill Volk, Mike Pruyn, Yusuf Motiwala, Kevin Bowman
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
