[huxley]

Seems like an odd sort of incentive to me.

There is about 18 months worth of risk to the developer to invest on an unproven platform with a phone maker that has seen a dramatic decline in fortunes.

No phones will be released until 2013, so you have that lead time during which there won't be any purchases, then the app has to be on the BB10 market for at least a year.

The developer has to develop or port the app, certify it with RIMM, keep it on the market for a year, hope there are enough phone buyers to make at least $1000 in sales, and then, assuming RIMM hasn't gone under, they will get a top off payment up to $10K.

For me that would be a lot of work and risk for $10K.