Responding strongly to AllThingsD's Friday report about a Baird Equity Research study which supposedly revealed that BlackBerry developer loyalty had hit an all-time low and trending downward, Alec Saunders - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM)'s VP of developer relations - said that he was "shocked" to hear that developers were losing interest in the BlackBerry platform.

With the report claiming that the Baird Equity Research study had found that app developers do not see a bright future for the BlackBerry platform, and that RIM was "bleeding developers," Saunders said that the media and analysts need to get the "bleeding" story straight about the BlackBerry developer community.

Noting that the AllThingsD report was shocking because the statistics disclosed therein "do not gel with what we (RIM) are seeing in the real world," Saunders said in a blog post that the report "contradicts much of what we are seeing and hearing in our developer community."

Rebuffing the report's claims about RIM "bleeding" the developers, Saunders said that the develop events held by RIM are well attended; and added that there had been a notable 157 percent increase in the number of vendors using RIM's app store - the BlackBerry App World - over the last one year.

Further adding that RIM had received enthusiastic response from the developers on the company's new developer tools for the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system, Saunders said that it has also been consistently come into RIM's hearing that the company "simply treats developers better than anyone else in the mobile industry."