With his keynote well underway, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis has already made many-a-fanboy’s smile. He has already announced the forthcoming new OS entitled BBX, which will allow devices to run their ever-so-necessary new QNX platform, and now he has updated us all on just how well their BlackBerry App World is actually doing. As for the numbers? It has seen 1 billion downloads to date, yes, 1 billion, with over 5 million downloads every day being requested - not too shabby, eh? Mr. Lazaridis also went on to say: “the BlackBerry subscriber base increased 50 million last year, today there are 70 million subscribers worldwide; 115 million smartphones, today they have sold 165 million (no increase). BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) has grown from 28 million to 50 million in one year.

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