RIM promises $10k to devs if BlackBerry 10 app earns $1k

RIM must be very confident that nobody will earn more than $1000 from a BlackBerry app in order to make an offer like this.<p>Either that or they are just trying to pump up their stock price for the BlackBerry 10 launch so that the executives can dump their stock before the company goes bankrupt.

Build $1 app; purchase 1000 copies; profit!

It is entirely possible that I don't know what I'm talking about, but I don't understand how this plan could possibly work. If developers thought they could make money writing Blackberry apps, wouldn't they already be writing them? Since I don't think $10,000 can cover the cost of developing a native app, I don't see how RIM's bounty would influence a developer's decision to develop for their platform.<p>Am I missing something?

Well this will totally get cut the rope ported... oh wait... it's free... along with most of my favourite apps....

jeez.. they just continue to find new and innovative ways to lose money

Is there anything new to this program? It sounds the same as the one announced in May ...<p><a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/05/02/rimm-promises-10k-per-app-jefferies-says-sell/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/05/02/rimm-pro...</a>

So... you have to make an app that's $1,000 good, but not $10,000 good. This program should be entitled "mutually assured mediocrity."

Most indie developers would not be able to make an app that earn $1k, especially on Blackberry. Come on, be realistic.

So what's the incentive to promote your app past $1,000 in revenue?

Make an app that costs $1000 dollars, ask someone to buy it... Profit!

Quality matters. You don't qualify if you earn more than 10k. You qualify if you earn more than 1k. Therefore if you earn more than 1k and less than 10k you have created a quality app otherwise your app is junk.<p>RIM and FAIL are synonyms.<p>Hire someone for PR please. Your previous commercial dissed your future phones. The ones without keyboards.