Blackberry Messenger for Android

[perksie]

Well it's now 5.20pm on Saturday 21st September, and there is no sign of this yet?

Fair warning there are about 20 apps in the Google Play store all of which are fakes and at best will flood your phone with adverts.

[sheepdog]

Probably appear once its been launched in the US and filters through to the uk store. Apparently the iphone version appears at midnight according to the twitter feed. 

[perksie]

The iOS version is up and running apparently:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/21/4755316/blackberry-messenger-is-now-available-for-ios-coming-soon-...

[Anonymous]

I cannot see it on the Apple App Store.

[perksie]

Don't shoot the messenger about the Messenger!

Isn't this it?

https://itunes.apple.com/id/app/bbm/id690046600?mt=8

[Anonymous]

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@perksie wrote:

Don't shoot the messenger about the Messenger!

Isn't this it?

https://itunes.apple.com/id/app/bbm/id690046600?mt=8

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Followed the link, opened itunes and said not available in the Uk store, only the Indonesian one.

Another Apple staggered launch !

[perksie]

There's been a fair but of staggering on here over the last couple of days!

I still think it's been quiet though to previous iPhone releases.

Some of the complaints have been amusing though...

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@perksie wrote:

Don't shoot the messenger about the Messenger!

Isn't this it?

https://itunes.apple.com/id/app/bbm/id690046600?mt=8

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Followed the link, opened itunes and said not available in the Uk store, only the Indonesian one.

Another Apple staggered launch !

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Android users caused the launch to be pulled....

Over 1.1 million got the unofficial leak and wrecked the launch for everyone!

[Anonymous]

Morning 1980b

Yes I read that lots of fake apps were put on google play which took IMO way too long to pull down.

Something like 100,000 downloads !

I'm not sure how Android users caused the issue as they were just wanting the software that should have been available on Saturday 21.9.13.

Blackberry caused this by providing a slow/non existent rollout.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Morning @Anonymous

Yes I read that lots of fake apps were put on google play which took IMO way too long to pull down.

Something like 100,000 downloads !

I'm not sure how Android users caused the issue as they were just wanting the software that should have been available on Saturday 21.9.13.

Blackberry caused this by providing a slow/non existent rollout.

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Morning.

It wasn't the fakes that caused the issue (altho they will have caused issues for users with malware etc!) it was an official version which was leaked:

http://www.androidcentral.com/global-rollout-bbm-android-hold

Agree that on the whole Blackberry messed this up, when people get a sniff of something new they want it yesterday, so Blackberry caused chaos and to be honest their servers should have been upto the demand.

Not good times for the company, this bad press was absolutely not what they needed!