Seriously RIM, if you want to compete with Apple/iTunes, have the decency to make AppWorld available to everyone. Right now, it is limited to three countries. And some software vendors have this mistaken idea that somehow by releasing their software exclusively on AppWorld, it lends them some sort of halo. Hello? Do I hear another dumb marketing idea ringing across another vacuous head?

Blackberry users are not just in three countries, and if software vendors want to release it on AppWorld, fine. But why not also release it on other channels for users of none AppWorld countries? I hope RIM is not pressuring these software vendors to release exclusively only on AppWorld. That would be supremely stupid! No one wins. Customers are getting pissed off at RIM for limiting AppWorld, software vendors get irate would-be customers, and end users without AppWorld are cut off.

RIM, go buy Handango or MobiHand if you can't work this out. I have been buying software from them for years and thousands of dollars spent, and never had to put up with this silly limitation due to whatever or whomever!