Not happening. Since they have fallen so far behind Android, there is no way they are going to give up apps that keep customers tied to the ecosystem.
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Not happening. Since they have fallen so far behind Android, there is no way they are going to give up apps that keep customers tied to the ecosystem.
A tad too late for most people I reckon. For me anyway, a couple of years ago when most of my friends/family still had BlackBerry's it would have been ideal, but most of them now have iPhones. Can see how it will work well in business though.
I must be in the minority here but I'm actually looking forward to this. I know a lot of people with Blackberries so it will be nice to have everyone connected together. Whatsapp works well, but it's quite an ugly interface I think, so it will be good to see what RIM brings to the table.
Microsoft is like Yahoo. A company with an identity crisis that doesn't know what to do. Fortunately for MS... They have deep pockets that keep them going until they can figure out what the future holds. Traditionally they were a software company... That sold their software for big bucks (Windows, Office, etc.). But with the advent of the mobile revolution (smartphones and tablets) they are getting left in the dust by concept of giving away great software to sell hardware. Examples of that are iOS devices, OSX on Macs, various Android skins to differentiate Android hardware devices from each other. Also the advent of the cheaper quality software in various mobile "app stores."
Microsoft is trying with Surface. And they have always had it right with their XBox division. Those things are probably what keeps them relevant.
Blackberry has traditionally had the business sector, but even they have lost much of that.
So your final thought is don't develop anything for any other platform to make a better user experience at the core OS for customers?
Sorry, but I feel that's a very shortsighted approach considering the level that global communication is moving in the past few years.
I'm actually STOKED for this. BBM is superior to any other real-time messaging or whatever they call it. I've had iPhone since 3G, but I have to admit - iMessage isn't as great as BBM
I doubt whether this reliability will be the same for iOS/Android.
But honestly, I don't care. I use Whatsapp and it's got a 100% reliability score. All my messages get delivered perfectly and I never receive complaints about not responding to one I should have had but didn't.
\ok- to everyone who thinks it is a bad idea for Blackberry to do this:
think again.
Before:
"No, I'll rather get the iphone, so I can communicate with my friends who have iPhones"
Now:
"Cool, blackberry let's me communicate with a service that I love with all my friends who have iPhones"
You got the direction wrong. iPhone lets you talk to Blackberry. Blackberry doesnt have iMessage.
They have Blackberry will destroy their own business, lets be honest, when we were kids, we all bought a Blackberry for BBM
That doesn't make any sense. Apple put iTunes (it's software) on Windows machines (other people's hardware) at the same time that it bolstered it's then-struggling Mac lineup.
Or did you forget that already?
Apple announced on the day they released Facetime it was going to be cross platform. The reason it hasn't happened yet, is Apple was sued by the patent troll VirnetX, who owns the patent on this tech, so it's been tied up in court, and which Apple lost and had to pay $368 Million to them. So until this is dealt with, It can't go cross platform... Yet.
iMessage only works with OS, doesn't have a dedicated contact list, doesn't have all the social networking features of BBM, and most important of all, doesn't have voice and video features.
Meh. iMessage for anyone with an iPhone (most people I communicate with regularly) and plain ol' SMS for everyone else. Really don't see the need.
If you travel internationally, data roaming and SMS message costs would eat you alive.
You can at least negotiate a data plan and your text messages will be $0 while you still get to talk to your BBM buddies.