As the finance report showed, RIM’s financial data may not be very strong, but the statistics for the BlackBerry applications and developer milestones are rather impressive. As we know, they are going to release the BlackBerry Dev Alpha prototype BlackBerry 10 device to developers at BB10 Jam conference, and with that, RIM sincerely hopes to catapult these figures even higher.

Here’s RIM’s Q4 milestones:

In terms of BlackBerry applications:

• 21% increase in BlackBerry smartphone apps
• 89% increase in BBM connected apps
• 240% increase in PlayBook apps submitted to App World
• More than 70,000 apps in App World
• More than 15,000 PlayBook apps
• More than 2 billion total apps downloaded
• 177 million apps downloaded per month

In terms of BlackBerry Developers (aka Jammers):

• 68% increase in vendors registered on App World
• 42% increase in apps submitted to App World by developers
• 137% increase in PlayBook apps approved for sale
• Built porting guides to allow WebOS and jQuery apps to be ported to PlayBook
• Announced port of Qt to allow Nokia developers to target PlayBook and soon, BlackBerry 10
• Launched BlackBerry Native SDK 2.0 for the BlackBerry PlayBook
• Prior to PlayBook OS 2.0 launch, incented 10,000 new developers to register as BlackBerry developers, with offer of a PlayBook in exchange for an app. Over 7,000 new apps submitted
• Over 20 stories added to the BlackBerry Developer success story page

Have a good Easter Sunday to all! 🙂