Its interface now matches the effect of BlackBerry’s BB10 operating system, which means there are slide-out panes and panels abound.
There were also a variety of innovative mobile-only features, like shared calendars, in a time where apps weren’t yet built with mobile in mind.īBM for iPhone and Android shares almost nothing with the messaging app I remember from 2008. Sending images was fast and easy in an age where everyone had no choice but to send slow, low-res "picture messages" via MMS. With a few flicks of the "pearl" or clicks of the keyboard, you could instant message with a friend, or with a whole group of people. What once made BBM so special was its dead-simple and speedy interface. Yet, BlackBerry just this week launched BBM for iPhone and Android - perhaps its last chance at capitalizing on the brand equity the company once commanded. BBM languished as the apps it helped inspire thrived and gained hundreds of millions of users. The shift from BlackBerry to newer, more modern platforms is nearly complete. BBM has been replaced by iMessage, WhatsApp, Kik Messenger, and Snapchat.
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Their phones have all been replaced by iPhones and Androids, and maybe a couple Windows Phones here and there. Never before could we chat on mobile as quickly as we could IM on desktops.įive years later, I can’t name a single friend who owns a BlackBerry. In combination with the world’s fastest hardware keyboard, BBM offered a new degree of speed and utility. It wouldn’t be a stretch, in fact, to say that most of my friends bought a BlackBerry just to be able to use BBM.
In 2008, almost every one of my friends had a BlackBerry, and swore by BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), the company’s lightning-fast messaging app.
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