BlackBerry signs deal with Amazon Appstore to bring 200,000 Android apps to BlackBerry 10.3

Jun18

by Sindy Cator on June 18, 2014 at 12:11 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Updates

BlackBerry has just announced a deal that will see more than 200,000 Android apps made available for BlackBerry devices via the Amazon App Store when the new version of BlackBerry’s operating system arrives later in the year. According to BlackBerry, popular apps like Groupon and Netflix will be available for direct download from Amazon’s App Store, although BlackBerry 10.3 users will still obviously have access to the BlackBerry World app store too. Before now, some Android apps have been available to run on the BlackBerry 10 OS, but installing them wasn’t a simple process. Now, users will have a far simpler, and…