Research In Motion's BlackBerry App World has hit an important download milestone.
According to the mobile firm, 1 billion applications have been downloaded from the mobile marketplace since it launched a little over two years ago. According to RIM, the store, which is running in some BlackBerry smartphones and the company's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, is available in over 100 countries around the world.
RIM's announcement might be bad timing. Less than a week ago, Apple announced that 15 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store since that marketplace launched in 2008. Apple hit 1 billion downloads in just nine months, easily outpacing RIM's milestone. The App Store reached 5 billion downloads last June and 10 billion in January.
RIM is also trailing far behind Google's Android Market. In May, the search giant announced that 4.5 billion applications had been downloaded from its marketplace so far. Google also said that it tallies another billion downloads every 60 days.
For its part, RIM says that its store has 3 million downloads each day.
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