Though the software teams at BlackBerry
suggested they’d be beginning the roll-out of
BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) as an app for
Android and iOS starting this week, it would
now appear that they’ve hit the proverbial
pause button for both platforms. While it’s
unclear at the moment if this cut in
downloads and service to the chat app
ecosystem for both Google and Apple’s
mobile OS had anything to do with
BlackBerry’s announcement of history-
making losses for the quarter, it is clear that
the results are thus: some people can use
BBM today, others cannot.
Straight from Inside BlackBerry’s Luke
Reimer comes word that some issues have
arisen for both the Android and iOS versions
of BBM. First, it would seem that the BBM
app for Android was never officially
released, but the BBM team saw a whopping
1.1 million active users in the first 8 hours of
app release.
The BBM user numbers BlackBerry speaks of
here come from an unofficial “unreleased
version of the BBM for Android app” which
was posted online before it could hit Google
Play. BlackBerry is being iffy on how this
app saw the light of day, but are now
addressing “issues” that appeared when this
so-called “unreleased” version began to
spread. Unlucky you, Android users:
BlackBerry has begun disabling this first app
– no matter how legitimate it may seem –
and the real version’s release date is again in
flux.
And the iOS version of BBM? There’ve been
some oddities in that release as well. Though
some users in places like the iTunes app store
for New Zealand were able to download the
real-deal iOS version of BBM for iPhone,
downloads have been stopped worldwide.
The good news for iOS users that did access
this app early is that they’ll be able to
continue using it (for the time being).

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