Blaq Launch Details
- September 5th, 2010
- Posted in News . Updates
- By Hamrick
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There have been countless comments and questions on Twitter lately from people wondering when Blaq will be available to the masses. So much so that we just can’t keep up with replying to everyone every time, no matter how much we’d love to.
So instead, I figured I’d post some details here to give everyone an update and let you all know where things stand.
We were originally planning on trying to have everything done by September 6th, the last day for submissions to the Super App Developer Challenge. However, as more details developed about the challenge, and we discovered that submitted apps don’t have to actually be live, available apps in App World to be eligible, we shifted our focus toward making our main submission version as solid as possible.
Now, having been a Storm user for some time myself, I know all too well what it feels like when an application launches without proper touchscreen support from day one. It sucks. That said, we want to make sure that when Blaq is available, it’s available to everyone. After all, it’s a BlackBerry app, not a BlackBerry Bold app.
As of Friday morning, Blaq was submitted to both App World and the Super App Dev Challenge as well. Assuming everything with the App World approval goes smoothly, our plan is to take this week and finish readying all other versions so that all possible models can be supported.
As far as a launch date, we’re looking TENTATIVELY at next Friday, September 10th — Blaq Friday. 
Did I say TENTATIVELY? We would love to launch today if we could, but how well this package is prepared is very important to not only the application’s success, but ultimately your satisfaction, and we can’t risk rushing that. We will be doing everything we can to make sure this timeframe sticks, but since it’s TENTATIVE, please don’t hate us if we don’t feel that it’s perfect enough for you by then.
Here’s hoping we see you again in about five or six days when Blaq Friday comes a bit early this year…
All the best, and All. Blaq. Everything.
:’( I thought it was in 2 days.. Oh well gotta wait a lil more now :/
i can wait… hehehe!
I wait
What will be the price tag?
i cant wait, i have used ubertwitter, seesmic, socialscope,t4bb… and i will love to give a shot
hopefully it will be os6 compatible cause i can’t live any longer with twitter for blackberry
Tentativamente?. PLease espero que sea definitivamente!!
En español el comentario.. Ta mal?
is this a paid app? if it is hmmm that’s a downer coz most of twitter apps for BB are free….
Still any chances for me to ‘taste’ the beta?
I don’t understand… you wrote: “Now, having been a Storm user for some time myself, I know all too well what it feels like when an application launches without proper touchscreen support from day one. It sucks. That said, we want to make sure that when Blaq is available, it’s available to everyone. After all, it’s a BlackBerry app, not a BlackBerry Bold app.” Yet there is no storm support.
Lame.
You’re right, it is pretty lame. And we wish it could’ve gone down differently, and that everyone could get a taste at the same time. When we decided we wanted to possibly launch on September 10th, we said pretty clearly that it was a TENTATIVE launch date, lol. When the day came around, the other versions just simply weren’t where we wanted them to be at that time, but the versions we launched were, so we figured it would make the most people happy to just launch what we could and get feedback while we finished the rest.
And it’s a good thing, too. We’ve received TONS of excellent feedback that will ultimately make Blaq light years ahead when the other versions are finally ready.
Regardless, we wish we could’ve had them all ready, but these things take time. We really are sorry to those that are feeling left out, but hope that they take some consolation in the fact that they will end up with a much better app in the end because of this.
Thanks for your continued support!
~ H