RIM knows its PlayBook will get nowhere without some decent apps. Apple’s App Store and Android’s Marketplace have been key to both the iPhone and Google’s mobile successes, with apps letting you add buckets of functionality to the little slabs you keep in your pocket. That’s why BlackBerry is currently courting App developers, offering a free PlayBook for successfully submitted applications.

Expected to launch next March (and just weeks away from Apple’s iPad 2) the PlayBook will pack a powerful 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, front and rear facing cameras along with a 7in touchscreen. That’s dream spec for would-be developers.

The icing on the berry-flavoured cake, other than getting paid of course, is that any developer that manages to successfully submit an app for the PlayBook before launch, will be given a free BlackBerry tablet. Not a bad incentive.

By that time, we would hope BlackBerry’s App World to have launched over here in the Middle East.

What say you? Excited about the BlackBerry PlayBook? Or is it too little, too late for RIM? Let us know in the comments below.

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