RIM TO OFFER FREE PREMIUM APPS WORTH 100$

In a bid to appease BlackBerry subscribers irked by the
major service outages last week, Research in
Motion (RIM) has offered them a selection of
premium apps worth more than $100 for free. RIM will
alsobe offering one month of free support to its
enterprise subscribers to compensate the possible loss
during the service collapse. The Canadian firm says
the free apps will be available through BlackBerry App
World until December 31,2011.
“Our global network supports the communications
needs of more than 70 million customers,” says RIM
Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. “We truly appreciate and
value our relationship with our customers. We’ve
worked hard to earn their trust over the past 12 years,
and we’re committed to providing the high standard of
reliability they expect, today and in the future.”
The subscribers can access the complete selection of
the premium apps from October 19. The selection of
apps include SIMS 3, N.O.V.A., Bubble Bash 2, Photo
Editor Ultimate, Vlingo Plus, e.t.c. RIM, however, also
points out that the availability of this offer would
depend on the type of device, operating system
version, access to BlackBerry App World and local
conditions and/or restrictions.
“We are grateful to our loyal BlackBerry customers for
their patience,” adds Lazaridis. “We have apologized to
our customers and we will work tirelessly to restore
their confidence. We are taking immediate and
aggressive steps to help prevent something like this
from happening again.”
RIM's free apps offer comes days after millions of
BlackBerry users across the world including India
suffered from what RIM dubbed as the “switching
failure in its private network”. The service collapse
continued for three days, irking the BlackBerry users
worldwide.