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Re: BBM for Android and iPhone is here

#13
I'm gonna download this and try to use it on my iOS device. Not because I care about BlackBerry, but because I highly support the fact it's available on iOS, Android, and BlackBerry.

I really really want iMessage to be available on other platforms too, so I can use it to contact people without iOS.

So I'm doing this to send a message and show my support.

Re: BBM for Android and iPhone is here

#14
post #10

Downloaded, installed, and opened App hoping to see a modern Blackberry. And here's what I got: Due to the incredible demand there is a line-up to start using BBM. Incredible demand? You just launched it and there's not even a review on App Store yet. Not sure if this is part of their marketing or something, but now I feel bothered and not expecting at all. Btw, the UI of the "line-up" screen really needs some refine…

It seems like they're trying to stoke artificial demand (similar to the Mailbox.app roll out). Except I doubt there is a real technical problem backing said slow rollout.

Re: BBM for Android and iPhone is here

#16
post #10

Downloaded, installed, and opened App hoping to see a modern Blackberry. And here's what I got: Due to the incredible demand there is a line-up to start using BBM. Incredible demand? You just launched it and there's not even a review on App Store yet. Not sure if this is part of their marketing or something, but now I feel bothered and not expecting at all. Btw, the UI of the "line-up" screen really needs some refine…

You don't even need to wait for it. I just clicked through the waiting screen and logged in.

Re: BBM for Android and iPhone is here

#17
post #14
post #10

Downloaded, installed, and opened App hoping to see a modern Blackberry. And here's what I got: Due to the incredible demand there is a line-up to start using BBM. Incredible demand? You just launched it and there's not even a review on App Store yet. Not sure if this is part of their marketing or something, but now I feel bothered and not expecting at all. Btw, the UI of the "line-up" screen really needs some refine…

It seems like they're trying to stoke artificial demand (similar to the Mailbox.app roll out). Except I doubt there is a real technical problem backing said slow rollout.

BBM alledgedly had load issues because of a leaked android version maybe a month ago....

Re: BBM for Android and iPhone is here

#18

I'm gonna download this and try to use it on my iOS device. Not because I care about BlackBerry, but because I highly support the fact it's available on iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. I really really want iMessage to be available on other platforms too, so I can use it to contact people without iOS. So I'm doing this to send a message and show my support.

Or just download WhatsApp. You can even get that on Symbian phones.

iMessage depresses me. It's great. It integrates with the OS on a level that Apple is never going to allow anyone else to do. And they're not going to let anyone else use the iMessage network, either.

Re: BBM for Android and iPhone is here

#20
post #5

A few years ago this would have been a killer app. Now I don't know a single person that owns a Blackberry (outside of a few that have them as work phones - and so, I won't BBM them)

Don't ask me why, but young women for some reason have them. I can't get a straight answer out of them either.
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