RIM to ramp up courting European developers

BlackBerry-maker RIM announced this week that it's expanding its series of conferences aimed at software developers to European programmers. The first DevCon Europe, as it's called, will occur in Amsterdam February 7th and 8th, 2012.

RIM has been slowly reaching out to developers, only launching DevCon Asia this year (the 2012 show will take place in Bangkok.) Meanwhile, the San Francisco area will see its fifth such conclave this fall.
RIM's quickening pace for wooing developers with dedicated shows makes us wonder how much the troubled mobile device-maker hopes that developer interest will increase its mainstream appeal. Android and iOS have hundreds of thousands of apps apiece, and even the much younger Windows Phone OS may have arguably surpassed the longer-established BlackBerry App World.

There's no guarantee that a swollen app store will turn consumers into buyers, and even beyond its stagnant app store, RIM's ...

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