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RIM: 1 billion app downloads down, 14 billion to go to catch Apple

12.07.2011
Research in Motion says  its 2-year-old BlackBerry App World has crossed the 1 billion app download mark and that a beta version of the app store upgrade is on the way.

The news comes about a week after Apple crowed that its 3-year-old .  Apple crossed the 1.5 billion app download threshold about a year after the App Store opened, but of course that was pre-iPad. 

Google recently said its . 

BACKGROUND:  

In a RIM says its BlackBerry App World is now seeing 3 million app downloads a day on average.  Those downloads come from both BlackBerry phones as well as the new . 

The beta of BlackBerry App World 3.0 will start later this month and screenshots of it have started to leak out across the . A minor update, , has already started to roll out.