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BlackBerry Messenger for iOS Likely Coming Soon, App Submitted Two Weeks Ago

If it's free, I may get my mother in law to install it when it's available on Android. While my wife and I can text to the US for free, the same isn't true for her. Whatsapp works for now, but she doesn't want to pay for it once her free year runs up.

While I'd never switch to a BB device, I'll install their messaging app.
 
Honestly I don't know a single person who uses bb all on iPhones or android. Lol so unless developers stsrt making apps for bb I don't think anyone wants to make the switch.
 
kaielement said:
Honestly I don't know a single person who uses bb all on iPhones or android. Lol so unless developers stsrt making apps for bb I don't think anyone wants to make the switch.
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App development has been going moderately apace and continues to get better. Of course, the fact that BB10 sideloads Android apps easily, often with better performance than native Android hardware, and that as of 10.2 the virtualization runtime is Jelly Bean, means that current Android developers have only a few mouse-clicks between them and another platform on which to generate revenue.
 
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I'm actually looking forward to this being on my iPhone! It's one thing I've truly missed since jumping ship from blackberry. The thing you all seem to forget is its not just anther poor messaging app it's a messaging app which lets you talk to who you want when you want without anyone having to see if your online like whataapp. Don't get me wrong whatsapp is great but even if you don't have someone as a contact they can still talk to you which is absurd. Bbm provides security in that sense by allowing you to talk privately to who you want! For that reason in pretty sure Itl grow on the majority of you, mark my words. Just wish they introduce an ipad version at launch *sigh*
 
You can tie a nice yellow ribbon on a turd and it's still a turd!

BB........Rest in Peace!
 
I really could go down the "who still has a blackberry" route - I can't think of one person who I know who has one. The one close friend I have who is a technological dinosaur and hung on to BB when everyone else switched even has an iPhone now.

Every talk plan on the planet comes with unlimited talk and texts these days, so there is no cost advantage in using BBM rather than texting.

And I don't agree that most kids have anything other than iPhones these days, or at least a budget android handset. There was a One Direction documentary on TV a couple of weeks ago, and all the teen girls had iPhones.
 
The last two neighbourhoods in which I've lived haven't been the nicest, and one thing I noticed is that although you don't really see too many iPhones per capita in neighbourhoods like these, you do see a lot of Blackberries, especially among the younger people. Blackberry in corporates not so much anymore, but BB among the poorer people, big thing. Anecdotal, sure, but it fits with what I've read about how RIM is enterprise in the US, but in the rest of the world their phones are marketed and sold as low cost youth consumer phones.
 
Holy ****. So many negativity.

If there's one thing, BBm on iOS only makes the iPhone better and more versatile.
Now I dont have to convince some of my colleagues to use Whatsapp or something on their Bb handset

And it's a free app too. Some of us ACTUALLY need it. So how about not download it if you dont like it. No need for skepticism
 
This is the last thing of value that BlackBerry owns. When it fails, which it will not necessarily because it's not good but because it's too late and won't be marketed well, BlackBerry can be bought for a pittance for its patents.
 
Wonder if this is like when google said it's maps app was submitted when it wasn't? If it's ready, just release it on android... right now if Apple knows they're waiting on approval to release on both platforms at the same time i'd delay it too :p

I think it's funny though when some of these companies are supposed to have some of the best, brightest people working for them and yet they still seem to be absolutely clueless on designing things, even Apple have things they could do on certain things these days and yet haven't! :rolleyes:
 
oh, please iMessage is the best messaging app. whatsapp is the second best and guess what, BBM is not even on my list.:rolleyes:
 
NightFox said:
...or any of the 60 million current users of BBM.
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who they happen to have whatsapp already installed on their mobiles

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iSayuSay said:
Holy ****. So many negativity.

If there's one thing, BBm on iOS only makes the iPhone better and more versatile.
Now I dont have to convince some of my colleagues to use Whatsapp or something on their Bb handset

And it's a free app too. Some of us ACTUALLY need it. So how about not download it if you dont like it. No need for skepticism
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why did you ask your friend not to install whatsapp?
 
ValSalva said:
This is the last thing of value that BlackBerry owns. When it fails, which it will not necessarily because it's not good but because it's too late and won't be marketed well, BlackBerry can be bought for a pittance for its patents.
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Hardly. Blackberry owns a QNX-based OS with superb hardware and external device abstraction, which continues to evolve at a 4 - 6 month per major revision cycle, and whose security and enterprise features are second to none in the mobile world. The importance of leveraging a microkernel OS on mobile platforms, where questions of both power management and security have become increasingly important both in fact and in the public awareness, cannot be overstated. A lot of people bandy about talk about the age of tablets and this being the post-PC era, but embedded microkernel systems like BB10 represent the advent of the post-tablet era, in which a single device is responsible for one's digital activity. When you have a device that can pair with other hardware, local or remote, and interact with it as though it were internally native with little or no energy penalty, and seamlessly scale up its resource usage and service provisioning when new hardware is paired because of its microkernel architecture, you're looking at the basis for the first true attempts at desktop replacement in mobile devices.

This advantage, which is unique to Blackberry in the mobile market, is why they will have excellent penetration in the business market, especially the sectors with sensitive data requirements like agencies or healthcare, and why they'll have no shortage of suitors should they decide to go private and Fairfax inexplicably doesn't buy them, which they will.
 
Shirley they're waiting for iOS7 to launch
Making and releasing an iOS6 app now would be a little silly non?
 
juanmanas said:
who they happen to have whatsapp already installed on their mobiles

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why did you ask your friend not to install whatsapp?
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Same reason why you'd prefer iMessage rather than Whatsapp if both parties has an iPhone?

Deep integration into the OS itself, assured service, and convenience, any Blackberry user has BBm by default, just like most iPhone has iMessage.

Can't force anyone to get Whatsapp now, can I?
 
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