After Numerous Delays, BlackBerry Messenger for iOS to Launch Today [Update: Released]

[apollo1444]

download it, and can't even use it? wow these guys are amateurs

 

[willmtaylor]

No he didn't. He said he might switch to BBM if they offered some features that Google doesn't offer.

(Can't tell if serious.)
Incorrect as you obviously don't know what those "features" are or the implications thereof.

Thanks though,
XOXOXO

 

[2IS]

About time, said nobody.

 

[iLog.Genius]

About time, said nobody.

About time...says the 6 million or so users who have already downloaded it. That's a lot of downloads for a Messenger and/or brand whom everybody likes to **** on...

 

[OriginalClone]

Is there anyone still using that POS? Who cares about BB anymore?

Obviously a lot of people..

 

[ritmomundo]

Got my invite email. That was pretty quick. I thought it would take a few days. I signed up when it first went live in the App Store this morning (took about 5 hours).

 

[j4zb4]

I have been using it since 2 months.., :s

Although I have sent exactly 10 messages in the past two months throug it and I have exactly 4 friends using it just for sake of it... ##

 

[GenesisST]

I don't have any problem with BlackBerry and I don't have a problem with this article. My comment was only a bit of fun.

Mine too!

 

[zunairryk]

Very polished and neat looking app. Was getting sick of whatsapp interface.

 

[willmtaylor]

Obviously a lot of people..

Always funny when the people on this forum think they understand what the masses want based off of their own interests such as that no one cares about BBM yet it's a top app on our own App Store.

Blackberry's smartphone market share has fallen to somewhere around 4%.

Their web traffic share is somewhere between .5% and 2%.

If you sincerely think that a new and highly-publicized messaging app's 1st day prominence in the App Store is nothing more than a novel anomaly, then I pity you.

XOXOXO

 

[j4zb4]

Very polished and neat looking app. Was getting sick of whatsapp interface.

Huh...? It's a piece f junk as far as I think... Let's see if this update has improved stuff...

 

[Lammercy]

Always funny when the people on this forum think they understand what the masses want based off of their own interests such as that no one cares about BBM yet it's a top app on our own App Store.

 

[zunairryk]

Huh...? It's a piece f junk as far as I think... Let's see if this update has improved stuff...

I was talking about the interface. And the icon is pretty slick too, IMO. Functionality wise, it's been working fine so far. What did you not like about the app?

 

[hansonjohn590]

Downloaded it, still stuck waiting for an 'invite' 5 hours later. They had all that extra time and still couldn't do a proper deployment.

No wonder this company is going down the toilet. Good riddance.

 

[Solitude1984]

Downloaded it, still stuck waiting for an 'invite' 5 hours later. They had all that extra time and still couldn't do a proper deployment.

No wonder this company is going down the toilet. Good riddance.

Try opening the app and inputting the email you used again. A bunch of people I know haven't gotten an email from bb but have been able to start using the app.

 

[shenan1982]

When AOL's marketshare was tanking they launched AIM, and it was very well received and millions and millions downloaded it and used it.

How's AOL doing these days? LOL

 

[3282868]

Most people are on wait lists, since this is an iOS app not many BB users are gonna rate the app. Now, it has 4.5 stars in iTunes App Store already when [it seems] 99% of iOS users are "wait listed"?

 

[AnonMac50]

http://crackberry.com/whatsapp-vs-bbm-cross-platform-messaging-head-head

Seriously? crackberry.com? No bias obviously.

 

[haruhiko]

Anything not made for iOS 7 is pretty much a fail in my book. I'm almost to the point where I'll go through and purge all the ugly outdated apps on my devices.

Only after the release of iOS 7 do I realise that so many apps have been abandoned by its developer without announcement. My bottom line is support for the iPhone 5 if it still doesn't have support for the screen I delete the app at once. Anyway among the very few apps that doesn't support iOS 7, one very notable example is Whatsapp messenger. So BBM still has some friends in the pre-iOS 7-land.

 

[BeyondtheTech]

I heard that people did the sign-up page first at the following link, then did a password reset, then was able to click the "I got my email" and went right in.

https://blackberryid.blackberry.com/bbid/registration/registration_eula.seam

I had an old BlackBerry ID, so I just did a password reset, then reset it and went back to the app and clicked "I got my email" and went right in as well.

 

[clipse2d]

And ur point...?

?

 

[AppleFanatic10]

I heard that people did the sign-up page first at the following link, then did a password reset, then was able to click the "I got my email" and went right in.

https://blackberryid.blackberry.com/bbid/registration/registration_eula.seam

I had an old BlackBerry ID, so I just did a password reset, then reset it and went back to the app and clicked "I got my email" and went right in as well.

Did all your old contacts come back?

 

[AzoozG]

Good. Now I can install it to satisfy the inforced waiting hype then delete it after 5 minutes.

 

[Lammercy]

I heard that people did the sign-up page first at the following link, then did a password reset, then was able to click the "I got my email" and went right in.

https://blackberryid.blackberry.com/bbid/registration/registration_eula.seam

I had an old BlackBerry ID, so I just did a password reset, then reset it and went back to the app and clicked "I got my email" and went right in as well.

Just worked for me.

 

[osofast240sx]

Blackberry's smartphone market share has fallen to somewhere around 4%.

Their web traffic share is somewhere between .5% and 2%.

If you sincerely think that a new and highly-publicized messaging app's 1st day prominence in the App Store is nothing more than a novel anomaly, then I pity you.

XOXOXO



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4% market share is actually good.