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I remember when blackberry had a promotion to get a PlayBook for free if you submitted an app. I'm sure they got loads of apps, if only to get the free PlayBook to sell.

I know that's what I did.



Sounds like a good way to get a bunch of terrible, unsupported apps into your ecosystem. Not sure that would help things.


Yep, it got them tons of pong games and stuff like that.

FWIW, Microsoft was giving out a lot of free developer devices, too.


For a while, Microsoft was flat-out giving developers $100 for every app they published:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-d...




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