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“For BlackBerry, messaging and collaboration are inseparable from the mobile experience, and the time is definitely right for BBM to become a multi-platform mobile service," said Andrew Bocking, an executive vice president at BlackBerry.
Bocking added that he wants to "offer iOS and Android users the possibility to join the BBM community.”
The arrangement has yet to be approved by Google and Apple. If it goes through, however, a free BBM app will be available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play, according to BlackBerry representatives.
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I'm an Iphone user and all my friends are android users...
Can anyone enlighten me why the BBM is so popular??? Does it have anything which is missing in Whatsapp and Viber????
I think this is great because I have an iphone and lots of my friends have blackberry s so it would be so much easier to keep in touch with them so I hope this get approved :)
We want BBM on Symbian :'(
I don't think that its fair for Blackberry users cause Iphone users have Instagram and we don have it.I'm a Blackberry curve 9320 user and I'm not happy wit the announcement,I think the Blackberry team should make Instagram for Blackberry users.
Your Faithfully Koketso Mabula
I don't think it is fair for us blackberry users cause we don't have Instagram or Android,but they get to have our social network.I'm a Blackberry9320 user and I think its time for the Blackberry team to make Instagram for Blackberry users. Sincerely Koketso Mabula