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It's interesting that they have a waiting list. I guess it could just be for marketing purposes, but you'd think that BB probably has the most experience of any company building scalable messaging infrastructure. I can't imagine their system would buckle under the load of a couple million users.
I will happily replace any third party messenger I currently use with one that sends notifications to all my devices (like iMessage does). I haven't tried this with BBM yet but does anyone know of a third party service that would send messages to all my devices with the app installed?
I don't get why Blackberry would do this. Quite a large number of my students have Blackberry devices (its fairly popular with under 16s still), and when I ask them why, they inevitable lament the awful phone but say they need it as their friends use BBM. Now they have exactly zero reasons to purchase new Blackberrys.
Myself, I love the BlackBerry 10 OS but it is rough around the edges, lack of ecosystem, apps, and hardware isn't the greatest. I think what they are trying to do with BBM is get some brand recognition back and then hopefully sway people over to buy their next gen devices in the future. Even BBM as a service could be enticing, enterprise cloud by BB. Also, BBM will help sell enterprise customers on BB devices because they are able to communicate with their friends on other platforms.
Edit: Anyone else lamenting the fact BBM should have been available 5-years ago should start looking at iMessage in the same terms. At that point it didn't make sense to lose their hardware advantage now they have to throw everything and hope something sticks.
I will happily replace any third party messenger I currently use with one that sends notifications to all my devices (like iMessage does). I haven't tried this with BBM yet but does anyone know of a third party service that would send messages to all my devices with the app installed?
Google Hangouts
Another one is Facebook, where you do not have to request a messaging connection to the other party.
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I wouldn't mind having something akin to Blackberry Hub on my Android, yet I'm not sure I need another messenger.
It's interesting that they have a waiting list. I guess it could just be for marketing purposes, but you'd think that BB probably has the most experience of any company building scalable messaging infrastructure. I can't imagine their system would buckle under the load of a couple million users.
They tried to release it a few weeks ago and it didn't work under the stress. So I'm guessing this is to let it build up a little slower.
I wonder what the BlackBerry Babes will have to say about this. Is an Android running BBM as desirable as a BlackBerry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDJGHCX2wA
The Android app is atrocious. I guess I didn't expect much more out of Blackberry.
Why is it atrocious? Other reviewers are ranking it close to 4.5/5. (source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbm&hl=en )