Samsung may be trumpeting the news that its mobile marketplace Samsung Apps has hit 100 million downloads, but that's a figure BlackBerry App World could hit in less than a month.
That's based on the tweet posted, and now since removed by RIM product manager Alex Kinsella, who has stated that the marketplace is now registering three million downloads a day.
Download derby
That would represent impressive growth for the platform, given RIM pegged its daily download rate at two million back in January.
RIM also revealed during Mobile World Congress that the marketplace was launching in 27 new territories it's total now sitting at 100 which might well explain the acceleration in the download rate.
If such a rate can be upheld, RIM could expect to see around 1.1 billion downloads a year.
As impressive as all that might sound, it's worth pointing out that even some of BlackBerry's more moderate rivals boast comparative rates, with Nokia having revealed that Ovi Store downloads average out at four million a day back in February.
At the top table, Apple claimed the App Store's daily download rate sat at 10 million in October 2010, and is now thought to be north of 30 million daily.
[source: BerryReview]
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