A few years ago this would have been a killer app. Now I don't know a single person that owns a Blackberry (outside of a few that have them as work phones - and so, I won't BBM them)
Downloaded, installed, and opened App hoping to see a modern Blackberry. And here's what I got:<p><pre><code> Due to the incredible demand there is a line-up to start using BBM.
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Incredible demand? You just launched it and there's not even a review on App Store yet. Not sure if this is part of their marketing or something, but now I feel bothered and not expecting at all. Btw, the UI of the "line-up" screen really needs some refinement IMHO.
I'm gonna download this and try to use it on my iOS device. Not because I care about BlackBerry, but because I highly support the fact it's available on iOS, Android, and BlackBerry.<p>I really really want iMessage to be available on other platforms too, so I can use it to contact people without iOS.<p>So I'm doing this to send a message and show my support.
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.
At this point I don't know why they even bother releasing new products that are doomed to fail. Releasing products that are DOA will only cause their stock price/company value to plummet even further and ultimately make the company less attractive to potential buyers while eroding the potential sale price of the company at the shareholders's expense.
Their application is poor. They're trying to build up hype using the same technique as Mailbox. Only, their app is poorly designed — the smiley for instance doesn't seem to be retina — and they've missed out a crucial element which built up further hype with Mailbox, the counter.
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?
Wow this app just feels so.... crappy. The UI just feels very amateurish. The whole smiley face logo thing or whatever it is makes me feel like I'm using AIM circa 1999.
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.
As much as I love(d) Blackberries, the messaging experience and the BBM—this page looks like pure irony.<p>5 years ago, yes, this would be massive and had the potential to get bigger than any other messenger. But now, where tons of messengers are avail with Whatsapp leading the way, no chance.<p>This is so sad.
The iPhone login process is so broken it's sad. We can read about BlackBerry's grand strategic errors, but maybe it's simpler: they just forgot how to execute.
"This item cannot be installed in your device's country."<p>?<p>I wouldn't mind having something akin to Blackberry Hub on my Android, yet I'm not sure I need another messenger.
I wonder what the BlackBerry Babes will have to say about this. Is an Android running BBM as desirable as a BlackBerry?
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDJGHCX2wA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDJGHCX2wA</a>