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Facebook Has No Plans To Release Instagram For BlackBerry 10

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Rumor has it that, although Facebook is working on a native BlackBerry 10 Facebook client, the company has no plans to release Instagram for BlackBerry 10.  Instagram is the popular photo sharing mobile app recently acquired by Facebook which boasts over 100 million users.

In software company speak saying there are no plans to do something is almost identical to saying maybe in the future, however, the wait and see if BlackBerry 10 pops before we develop for it approach that Facebook is taking with Instagram could be a problem for RIM if other big name, cross platform, mobile app developers take the same approach.

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Where Are The Apps That Can Move The Needle For BlackBerry 10?

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Someone asked me the other day if I was getting excited about BlackBerry 10 as its launch early next year gets closer.

I said that I wasn’t necessarily excited, but, that I was eagerly anticipating the release.  They asked my why I wasn’t excited, and, after thinking about it for a moment, I said, “There aren’t any apps that we know of that anyone needs to get excited about”…

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BlackBerry 10 Will Launch With More Apps Than Any Other 1st Generation Smartphone OS

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Arguably the biggest complaint of BlackBerry users when comparing their devices to the iPhone and Android devices is that there just aren’t that many apps out for the BlackBerry in comparison.

RIM is aware of this complaint and is why Alec Saunders, RIM’s vice president of developer relations and ecosystem development, told CNET that the company will launch BlackBerry 10 with more apps than any other first-generation mobile operating system.

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