I for one was an avid Blackberry user ever since I got a Bold 9780, and of course I soon discovered BBM and got into a few social networks that I thought I would never have gotten into if I never knew BBM existed. The immediacy of the messaging was just really a plus point for me, while I kept finding ways to meet more overseas acquaintances.
On the other hand, I have always liked the Metro interface (despite many sentiments against it), and I wanted to try the Windows phone platform for the longest time. However, when Blackberry decided to not port BBM over to Windows Phone (for now), it was an action that cut off that part of the phone market to me. Now I have to find a secondary device to run BBM if I were to employ Windows Phone as my daily phone device.
I for one was an avid Blackberry user ever since I got a Bold 9780, and of course I soon discovered BBM and got into a few social networks that I thought I would never have gotten into if I never knew BBM existed. The immediacy of the messaging was just really a plus point for me, while I kept finding ways to meet more overseas acquaintances.
On the other hand, I have always liked the Metro interface (despite many sentiments against it), and I wanted to try the Windows phone platform for the longest time. However, when Blackberry decided to not port BBM over to Windows Phone (for now), it was an action that cut off that part of the phone market to me. Now I have to find a secondary device to run BBM if I were to employ Windows Phone as my daily phone device.
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It is a pity.
I seriously couldn't care less about bbm. There's Facebook chat, kik, snapchat, xbox live messenger, windows live messenger, and about a billion others. I couldn't care less, why do i need it? What does it do that my current txting, emailing and chat functions don't do?
There was a lot of buzz for BBM when it came out for iOS and Android but I personally have not seen too many people actually switching to it as their daily messaging app.
BBM will be coming to WP8 in the new year. Last I heard the delay is due to the fact that BlackBerry can't get away with their BB10UI look on WP (rightfully so).
To be honest I'm surprised both Apple and Google allowed it on their platforms with that UI
I just had when they quote this "The market share isn't big enough" crap as their reason... they just don't want an OS that beat them to 3rd to have something. If 50 people used it maybe I'd agree but when we're talking millions of people it's a bit different!
I had a blackberry several years ago, and really liked it. I just feel like there are so many cross-platform messaging programs now, that BBM is marginalized.
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i really want to see it on WP. im not a WP user but i was hard into the blackberry world and everyone that i knew that left blackberry ended up either going to WP or android. for some reason very few went to apple. i remember the BBMFORALL campaign they had and if you cant get bbm on one of the major operating systems then its BBMFORMOST. im sure with the xbox one getting traction and more integration with that they will see an increase in user base which will make blackberry think twice and launch an app. who knows maybe they're working on a polished version to launch for the phone and computer at the same time.
I for one was an avid Blackberry user ever since I got a Bold 9780, and of course I soon discovered BBM and got into a few social networks that I thought I would never have gotten into if I never knew BBM existed. The immediacy of the messaging was just really a plus point for me, while I kept finding ways to meet more overseas acquaintances.
On the other hand, I have always liked the Metro interface (despite many sentiments against it), and I wanted to try the Windows phone platform for the longest time. However, when Blackberry decided to not port BBM over to Windows Phone (for now), it was an action that cut off that part of the phone market to me. Now I have to find a secondary device to run BBM if I were to employ Windows Phone as my daily phone device.
It is a pity.
I'm with you. The WP interface is a big draw for me, but I still know a lot of people that use BBM (BB, iOS, and Android users) and I was looking forward to using it on a WP8 device. Will have to wait longer I guess and keep carrying two devices! :(
