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BlackBerry Taps Amazon for Smartphone Apps

Jun 18, 2014, 10:16 AM by Eric M. Zeman

BlackBerry today said it signed an agreement with Amazon in order to offer more apps to owners of its BlackBerry 10 smartphones. The deal will add Amazon's Appstore to BlackBerry handsets running BBOS 10.3. BlackBerry claims the agreement will give BlackBerry owners access to an additional 200,000 applications. Further, BlackBerry said it will close the music and video content stores of BlackBerry World. BlackBerry owners will still be able to access and use any content they've already purchased from these stores, but the BlackBerry World music and video stores will no longer be available beginning July 21. The BlackBerry World store, as well as the Amazon Appstore, will continue to offer third-party music/video apps and services. BlackBerry is expected to released BBOS 10.3 in September.

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T Bone

Jun 19, 2014, 12:18 PM

Good Move

The biggest obstacle to Blackberry 10 catching on is the lack of apps, this deal should fix that problem.

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