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After Numerous Delays, BlackBerry Messenger for iOS to Launch Today [Update: Released]
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Whatsapp has a LOT of people, if you travel you can see many carriers actually pay the yearly fee to whatsapp so many countries whatsapp IS the current multi device experience.
I see more than 80 people in my whatsapp with no need to exchange codes. In this day & age I can count w/ my fingers how many people have BB's.
What good does it do Apple to own the *free* Message market if it removes a reason for a user to move to the iOS platform?
Yes, these are bound to be enlightening and unbiased articles, considering the course.
Enjoy the bizarre OS, outdated specs, and lack of apps. Oh yeah, and don't forget to bring the charger with you.
I've tried Whatsapp, great app, I wish iOS would allow users to select default app's as that would be my MMS of choice.
That said, iMessage is free internationally between iPhones, no? I wish it could be opened cross platform. It'd make sense for Apple to combine FaceTime and iMessage into one application (shame licensing matters kept FaceTime from being open-source, I remember the excitement when Jobs mentioned this during the keynote).
Lastly, bring back iChat "Answering Machine" from the Leopard 10.6 beta's.
(source: Leopard iChat Answering Machine
This would be a great feature for the deaf and would really bring consumer video communications to the forefront.
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What bizarre OS? It is QNX (real-time POSIX).
BB10.2 has an Android 4.2.2 runtime. If an Android app is not published for it, you can try repackaging the .apk yourself.
The specs are more competitive than Android for $300.
I think I will be fine with the battery. I won't be calling or browsing the whole day. I specifically wanted a removable one, that's why I don't like the Z30.
... which have installed the BBM app and set it up ... Which is the same reason other third-party multi-OS chat clients have thrived but only within the confines of a rather small niche.
Sigh. I suppose there's that. I always got by with just SMS to them though. Isn't there a WhatsApp implementation for BB10?
Outside of Blackberry diehards, BBM is completely unknown. If they go on marketing with the full name (ie, emphasize Blackberry/ Messenger) then they run into the wall of folks with horrible impressions of Blackberry products due to their repeated high-quality-marketing / low-quality-delivery consumer pushes. So, I don't think it really has an advantage to speak of over WhatsApp etc.
And, IMHO, the texts thing really chapped me a few years ago. But now my phone plan has unlimited texts, so I really don't care. SMS is far from perfect (hence the "simple" part of the name), but it gets the job done. I definitely prefer an integrated solution like iMessage (on iOS), or even BBM on Blackberry, over SMS or a third-party app. The thing is: except for a rapidly-disappearing core of BB hardware diehards, BBM is a third-party app, not an integrated solution.
What market are you imagining they want to own?
iMessage isn't a profit center. It is a loss center, adding value to their on-fire profit center (iPhone sales and to a lesser extent iPod Touch, iPad, and Mac sales).
iMessage communicates just fine with other OS's, by shifting down to SMS when necessary. So, iOS users can use it with absolute impunity.
I don't see any problem to be solved here.
It's a company known for making phones with archaic keyboards, tiny screens, nonfunctional scroll-ball-based navigation, and "it clicks!" referring to a screen you had to press on to simulate a mouse click which never caught on.