Yesterday, we got information about RIM’s upcoming App Center, a portal for third party apps. The information revealed two major negative points about the new BlackBerry application store. First, it was controlled by the carriers and second, it was web browser based system.  If you are like most people and you didn’t want greedy carriers to decide, what applications you can have on you BlackBerry smartphone, an alternative just came along - BerryStore. It’s an unaffiliated startup that has launched a competing app store for BlackBerry Apps.
The apps on the new store works on both old and new BlackBerries and across carriers. Also BerryStore is a separate app and is not web browser dependent. You can download the app by visiting BerryStore website on your BlackBerry and once the app is installed you can browse through and get the applications available via the BerryStore. Right now there are about 40 apps available on the store they are all free. The company plans to offer paid apps in future. To compete with RIM’s App Center, the store has to maintain both quality and quantity of applications that are posted on the BerryStore. If they are able to do that, BerryStore can be a serious threat to BlackBerry App Center.