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I’m looking to develop a Blackberry app with storage. Since most of my data is structured, I was looking at using SQLite for storage. Since this is only supported by devices running OS v5.0 or higher, I was wondering if there was a significant portion of B’Berry market running v4.xx OSes.
Can anyone provide a breakdown of their market share? Is getting this stat even possible?
Thanks,
Teja.
Even the consumer market still has a TON of 4.x devices. Consider the fact that RIM only just recently released 5.0 and it’s only available on a handful of devices. Handsets such as the Curve 8330 are still the most popular phone (business and consumer) and those are all still running 4.x.
So while it may be tempting to use 5.0 APIs to make your app development easier, you’ll be cutting off a significant portion of your user base. It will probably take at least a year to see enough market penetration of 5.0 to consider it as a “lowest level” target OS. There will be a handful of “newer” legacy devices that will get 5.0 updates (for example the Verizon Storm is already running 5.0) but it will take some time for all carriers to test and make 5.0 available.
EDIT: Nov. 10, 2010 – At this year’s developer conference, RIM said that 5.0 penetration in the market has really taken off. Looking at our own usage reports, I can concur – a large majority our users are now using 5.0 and higher.