BlackBerry has announced that BBM for Android has been downloaded over 100 million times from the Google Play Store. The app has hit this milestone in 17 months following its October 2013 launch.
BBM is now showing in the 100 million-500 million installs category. BlackBerry also notes that this is just a part of their total, given their availability on iOS, Windows Phone, and of course, BlackBerry.
BlackBerry had this to say on their milestone:
BBM for Android has officially achieved a milestone on the Google Play Store: 100 million installs. That puts BBM in the top tier of messaging apps on Google Play, and we got there in a little over a year as we first posted BBM for Android in late October 2013. We have 3.7 million reviews, and just shy of 2.4 million of them are five stars.
BBM recently added some major new features. These include Custom PINs, which allow you to create your own BBM PIN for a small monthly fee. Also added was support for Android Wear, letting you view notifications and even reply to messages, all from your wrist.
Source: BlackBerry
Reader comments
BBM for Android passes 100 million downloads on Google Play
You CrackBerry Users are so SHALLOW and naive .
I'm using an Android phone and still do and YES i do use BBM 50/50 along with Hangouts.
I have no use for Snap chat and or WhatsApp.
Everyday I use BBM with friends and colleagues. Im sure BBM is alive and well on Android so sorry to burst your little Crackberry bubble. It's a shame that you people do not see anything other then BlackbBerry ( HAIL BlackBerry!! its the best in the WORLD ! ) but then that is no different then the people called iSheep that only consider an Iphone as the be all and end all.
Just so narrow minded.
Peace out.
I have a Bold 9930, and still love it. I needed a tablet and got a Lenovo TAB S8-50.
It's a decent tablet, but when I downloaded BBM and BlackBerry Blend from the Playstore. Both are incompatible with the tablet or my phone's system. Great.
Since my phone is running BlackBerry system 7.0, and my tablet is an 8 inch Android running 4.4.2 then nothing is compatible. Wow! All I need to do is scrap one or both to get compatible.
BlackBerry really needs to realize someone running this newer version of Android will have 8 inch tablets. They don't have a response for this either. I thought the point of BBM for iOS and Android was to make it usable on other systems.
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BBM by far is one of the most reliable & organized messenger i've ever encountered. one-on-one chat may not seem anymore impressive than what's available or widely used. but when it comes to group chat, none can hold a candle against BBM.
when u have multiple international teams to communicate with, orchestrate team sales strategies, or disseminate instructions. u'll swear by BBM
They are all foreigners no one is interested in speaking with
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As long as BBM is limited to one device only, there is no reason for me to force my contacts to change over from Whatsapp.
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Would be nice if it worked on android tablets but for some reason it is not available for many of them. No Samsung tablet I know can have BBM on it. Why is this???
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100MM download, how many are actually using bbm?
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In January, 2015, BB announced that 70% of BBM downloads to iOS & Android owners were active users. Total = 98 million. Add a similar percentage from BlackBerry owners (40 million X 70% = 28 million) and another 3 or 4 million (?) from Windows Phone. All in all, approximately 130 million active users. That's a pretty good number.
I still don't know anyone who uses BBM... sad... They're all on WhatsApp which is fine with me. If BBM can match or surpass WhatsApp's group chat functionality, then maybe...
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What's funny to me is that The Verge, with their "professional" writing staff, hates BlackBerry so much yet they continue to write articles that bash the brand. Why waste the energy if the company is so dead or a joke?
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Congratulations BBM! Excellent job!
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While 100 million downloads is a great accomplishment, the more important metric is number of active users. I'm sure nearly everyone downloaded the app to see what it's all about, but how many stuck around and continue to use it regularly. That number remains unreleased.
+1000 just like the stats on WhatsApp, they have some mind-blowing numbers of daily sent / received messages.
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But BB did release some of these numbers 2 months ago at CES: http://crackberry.com/blackberry-announces-bbm-numbers-2014-previews-upc...
I still have around 100 Bbm contacts..Go bbm
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Yet still no one uses it... contact list empty in bbm. Whatsapp full contact list tho.
I had a bunch of people downloading and using BBM when it first came out for Android and iOS. As of today, only one of my friends use it.
BBM was just too late to the party. I'm a longtime Blackberry user so at the end of the day it don't matter to me i'll still use the platform. But it sucks. I wish Blackberry market would advertise the benefits of bbm
Not Fours Years But A Lifetime
I got none
9780-9900-Q10-Passport!
It's unfortunate that BBRY thinks 100M download is a great moment; the questions is more like of the 100M how many are actually using it daily?. Now don't get me wrong, I use it daily, religiously, however of the 120 WhatsApp friends and client contacts I have (actively) I managed to get 40+ to install BBM and only 3 really have kept using it bringing my BBM contact total up to a whopping 16. Not good I say, however talk to me when you hit 100Million daily active users from Android and iOS platforms and I will applaud.
If BBM is profitable for BlackBerry, all other numbers are not important
If you bring up profitability (not part of my comment) then it you are relying on real numbers not hype. Those real numbers come from actual user base not just downloads; my point stated.
BBM makes most money from prosumers (BBM Meetings, BBM Protected, Custom PIN, etc), not from consumers like Google Play users.
Profitability is key here, not users or downloads numbers from joe people.
"My point stated" ;)
It's obviously relevant enough (about Google Play users) for BBRY to make a big enough deal about it. But like I said, nothing that I said had anything talk about 'profitability' just that 100M is nothing unless they are active users.
... and why you don't talk about profitability? It's forbidden?
Maybe, BBM is more profitable than WhatsApp with a lot less amount of users.
This is the ONLY IMPORTANT THING for BlackBerry nowadays, not active users.
Snapz -- 2 months ago, at CES, BlackBerry announced that 140 million iPhone and Android users had registered with BBM. http://crackberry.com/blackberry-announces-bbm-numbers-2014-previews-upc... 70% of these users are active daily, meaning the total DAU at the end of 2014 was 98 million. Notice that these numbers did not include BlackBerry subscribers (40 million) or Windows Phone users (number unknown, but a number of Windows Phones are preloaded with BBM).
I usually tap the top right corner button to make call when I have trip travel. It' free of charge only if you have wifi. The BBM voice quality is super.
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Those who say downloads don't mean squat simply have no idea what they are saying.
1. There is a reason the number of downloads and reviews are shown for each app in every app store (Google play, Amazon app store e.t.c as noted in the write-up, it brings BBM to the up to the level of other top ranking chat apps which means better promotion, easier to find, etc
2. The number of downloads will attract businesses who want to place adverts on BBM. The number may not represent the number of active monthly users (which BlackBerry always releases, the last being 90m AMU), it definitely gives an impression of the potential active users.
Hmmm, I only seem to about 10 of this 100 million...
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Downloads mean squat. We need constant quarterly usage numbers.
Downloads can be accidental or uninstalled within an hour vs a week. Not reliable data just a quick news bragging rights.
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Cross platform video chat would probably get my daughter and all of her friends to quit snapchat, instagram, whatsapp, oovoo, all at once. Could you imagine how other developers would see this? Maybe bring a few bigger name app devs to write native BlackBerry apps?
The only people I know using bbm are my wife and two kids because I make them. They still resist and I've shown them so many of the features. Wife says she hates the whole group pictures thing. Daughter says she hates the broken notifications. Son loves it because he doesn't have a phone yet, so he can bbm voice call me from his ipad when I'm traveling.
And lack of video chat.
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The idiocy of the small typing box for messages makes it difficult for this great BlackBerry fan (z10 & z30) to push the BBM app.
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BBM rocks and those who don't like it can go and eat a crow.
Well said
Why can't u run BBM on my Android 4.4.4 Acer tablet? Disappointed with that.
ZeeTen goodness in every tap, peek and swipe.
Installs are one thing. How many actual USERS are there?
If BBM is profitable ($$$$), user numbers are not important for Chen
I won't trust whatsapp (owned by facebook), only BBM.
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I still think one of biggest problem is pin only way to add people. Pin is awesome, but it would be much more easy if we could see suggestions based on our contact list. This is how most messaging apps connect people now so they will miss that in any other app. PIN is good for e.g people living in different countries. But I see nothing wrong with suggest contact based on your phone numbers. The app has access to your contacts app anyway. What's the difference?
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1. PIN is not the only way to add in BBM. You can use email, sms and scan codes.
2. Yes, you already get suggestions to add based on your contacts list. Just tap to add from the suggestions list and the other person is added when they accept your invitation.
But I agree with you...at this stage, BlackBerry should just include an option to add people by phone numbers just like what's app, which you can toggle on or off.
No, no, no, no... phone numbers is a really very bad idea
Awesome, but we have to get more people to use the app. I've gotten over 30 people to download the app, and they've used it for a short while, but when I go to check up on them via BBM, there not on it anymore.
Not sure what the answer is, but I love all the new features so I guess we have to keep trying our best to get people to use it.
My Z30 Rocks!
Sweet!
I think Facebook messenger is going to win this battle, not just against bbm but everyone imessage, Google talk, Whatsapp, etc.. It's the closest thing to being able to universally message anyone compared to texting. You don't have to tell anyone to download anything you just message them. I think it even hooks into phone numbers so as long as you have that you can message them without being friends. Might be a feature BBM should add. I register my phone number with my BBM pin and then people can BBM without having to add me.
I can't for the life of me figure out why Facebook bought whatsapp when they already have a better product.
I use BBM with 4 or 5 people
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Sweet :)
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Add BBM video cross platform and it will really take off
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Finally persuade my 10 year old to download BBM onto her I pod touch. Starts using it and likes it. She then adopts my old Bold 9900 and gets a pay as you go sim... only, despite it being a Blackberry she discovers that she can't use BBM without a subscription... but she can use What's App!! The irony
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Good news
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Why so much b¡tc¡n about how many actually use it daily vs downloads!?
No one mentions this about any other platform! Some people just don't want BlackBerry to have any assemblance of a win smh
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100 million and I know none of them, wow!!, just wow!!
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Somebody knows you? LOL
Well I only I have 2 BBM friends lol
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Crackberry: "... small monthly fee... " really??!??
Typically crackberry..
just a bunch of m.....
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Why are you all negative about BBM? I run a medium size business and ALL my clients use BBM and they all have a mix of phones, they want security. My best friend is an ios nutter, and he loves BBM even when he has to travel around Europe, I think it's fantastic news well done BlackBerry, I can see great things in 2015 and I see a joint venture with Samsung lasting a long time.
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Android and iOS are broken experiences when it comes to BBM. People want video call but you can't even share videos in the chat if you are on Android or iOS
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Cross platform video.... when!
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If it weren't for the Glympse integration (and the one Glympse I get every couple of months from my wife), I'd just delete BBM from my phone. It really is a dog, now. Very few people use it, and the most activity I see from it is the increasingly frequent "sponsored Invites" I get.
Nice......
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How many users? They can have 1 billion downloads, only real users numbers counts.
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Precisely.
I agree with you Atere Samson....i'm from Nigeria too and BBM is simply the messaging app of choice.
However, I don't like how people hop in here and act like BlackBerry is trying to con them or something.
BBM hits 100M users period! That's great news.
When it's time to give the news on the number of active users they will. BlackBerry has been open about the number of active BBM users and THEY NEVER HIDE IT (that told us the last time that it was on 90M active users). Listen to the next earnings report and you'll hear the number of active users. Now they are just spreading the news the way it is, BBM hits 100M downloads. ALL other messaging apps too brag about the number of downloads, including Whats app and Line.
I absolutely hate it how people just hate it when people knock BlackBerry for every little thing. Just be happy for them about the progress.
A small monthly free???? This being compared to whatsapp. 99cents a year & skype free & hangouts free. I DON'T consider it a small free. It's the MOST expensive messenger out
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Did I miss a major announcement? BBM is still free, only the add-on cost anything. The unobtrusive add-on, by the way. It isn’t like the advertising is overwhelming, I barely even notice them in my feeds.
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Nice to see the Droidsmen enjoying a Blackberry app.
It's just a download figure. No need to over-interpret...
100 mill indeed is a milestone. :-)
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
Interesting number of downloads, however users counts. But, 100 millions downloads is amazing. Enough to know that many people are STILL interested on BlackBerry, I mean BBM
Initiated from my Q10
Most people i know use bbm now.... not whatsapp
Passport. The world's best phone. Peroid.
WhatsApp is a complete joke.
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The cross platform BBM video/audio call is the killer feature. I would drop Skype right away in favor the crystal clear BBM video calls.
U can say all the crap most of you want but here in Nigeria (the giant of Africa) with over 150 million people, most people use bbm, be it on their Android devices, Blackberry devices, apple devices and even windows, some people even use it on their pc's using Android emulators....if it was available for java(s40) and symbian(s60) devices I assure u more people will download it!
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Awesome!
Passport. The world's best phone. Peroid.
BBM Nation!
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
Abeg make u tell them again and again. Lol!!!
I love BlackBerry but they are ass backwards in their strategy of making BBM good . Telling people that they can pay for custom pin and no adds in their feeds is not really going to get active users # up. If they would actually work on improving channels and adding real features like video chat cross platform they will see their numbers skyrocket. There has not been any real big enhancements to the BBM consistently.
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Long live #blackberry!
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That's great news.
I hate bbm
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BBM loves you
I know many using BBM. Mix of iPhones, Androids and BB10's.
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Great news for blackberry, more to come!
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BBM Cross platform is great. I have two WP users, one Android user, one iOS user and me (BB user).
I just wish you could use BBM on android tablets.
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Not a meaningful number but this is more of a PR/ADV thing. Big numbers get on the news so I guess they are trying to get word out. It might not be truthful but it works when it comes to marketing. Picking and choosing the numbers you want to use is part of most advertising.
Yeah! I also have my wife and daughters using it on their Droid phones. They even called me while I was in Europe on voice chat. Way too clear and easy.
We planned a surprise party on it using it for group lists and to do's. They love it.
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I'm not a Bbm user but my wife just upgraded from curve to Q5 and I've been using Z10 for last 18 months and i have used Bbm on BlackBerry 10 for the first time. I must say I'm impressed with it! But i never buy virtual goods full stop! As for paying monthly for a personalised pin well a fool and his money are easily parted! One thing I hate are large companies trying to make a revenue stream out of me! It just stinks of accountants poking around where they don't belong. I think companies should beware of monetising everything as it can turn people off of that company. To an accountant we are just units that they need to find ways of bleeding every last buck out of. Gone are the days when Goodwill was a valuable company asset!
My lubbly jubbly Z10. Shine on you crazy BlackBerry
Hey please go easy on the accountants.. they are not all bad people ;)
In order to maintain your account in good standing please send $5/mo to #I_should_hire_an_accountant_myself_:)
Someone forgot to inform google that BlackBerry was supposed to be bankrupt by now.
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I didn't say anything about how the contact-data is used by WhatsApp or BBM, I was just mentioning that both require access to your contacts. The main difference is in what is used as an contact id, i.e. pin or phone number.
But this thread is about the 100 mln downloads, not whether one messenger is better than the other.
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Why do some have the need to explain that downloads do not equal frequent users. Why do some want to tell that they know people who have installed BBM and deleted it. Yes some people will not use it, but hey it doesn't surprise me with 100+ million downloads. Please people, don't be so sour. Take a look at the numbers and realize that 100 million is simply huge. Yes there's WhatsApp the big giant; doesn't mean that BBM is lost, pathetic, or a fail!
Oh and those that don't like WhatsApp because it wants to access your contacts, BBM does exactly the same.
To each his own.
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Whatsapp has this problem that if a friend has a number and then cancels that number and gets a new one, when the phone company re-issues that old number it shows up on your contacts, so now you have access to a strangers number...bbm doesn't do that period sorry Whatsapp is intrusive
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+1
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+100
It would be interesting to know whether they counted the pre-loaded BBM on phone manufacturers like Micromax in India...
If its only Play store... that's a good number...
But what matters to BlackBerry now is how many are active visitors and how many ppl will be ready to pay and generate can to make BBM division to pay for itself...
Hope that BBM moves from a cost centre to a profit centre in the leadership of Chen!
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Well I prefer BBM over Skype in terms of messaging my sister. I have it installed in her Iphone haha.
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Killer
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I believe if BBM is more consistent with their features it will definitely have a much bigger user base. E.g to have :
1. Videos sharing on group chat
2. Location sharing on Group chat
3. File sharing on Group chat
4. Glympse on Group chat
5. Voice notes on Group chat
6. No matter how people add a picture to BBM Group Chat it will be in line.
The latest implementation of inline pictures in Group chats is good but still not good enough. The reason is that if I add a picture to the group chat from the picture app it doesn't appear in line. It just goes straight into the gallery & this is confusing for users.
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Chen it on...! :-)
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
Those are surprising numbers considering no one I know uses the BBM app.
Sweeeeetttt
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Video calling please.
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I bet most of those people were previous blackberry owners. I've had friends that didn't want to leave blackberry because of BBM back in the good old days.
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BBM is far behind than whatsapp.
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I got my friend using it on her tablet we talk almost everyday. My next friend she has android we just had an argument but we talk everyday before that. My sister use an iPhone now and she's on bbm as well so I have people in my circle.
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A lot of my friends downloaded it on iOS when it first became available and none of them use it now. They find it useless with imessage available and nearly everybody in my area uses an iphone
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The rest of the world is dominated by Android with over 80% of phones/devices. Look outside your neighborhood where most people find iMessage useless.
Interesting, I have quite a few people on BBM that are iPhone users, they prefer bbm because of the glitch problems with imessage, ie not working when you switch accounts, double messaging...
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Haha, the irony, and peeps said BBM was glitchy & unreliable, and left...
Thanks for sharing!
:-)
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
Keep it up BlackBerry yes.
but less daily users :( ....
Although everybody I know still uses WA and do not have it installed... weird
does it better!
We the blackberry users are smart like that. We want to know about users. I average person on Android that is looking for popular app's just see's the downloads. The news just wants that download number. People just see numbers and they want it.
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BlackBerry sees a nice number and they report it while meaningful numbers are kept under wraps. That's their new PR style.
This is nothing new for any company
Thank you
They gave you a hard number fact. What's the problem? How you choose to interpret it or what you choose to do with it is up to you, but why make it sound like they short-changed you somehow?
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See the following couple comments to prove my point.
I'm not sure what you'd like them (BlackBerry) to do for you, but they have given periodic updates on active users and today they happened to hit some milestone of sorts for total downloads from one store. They did not claim that every person that downloaded it is an active user, they simply told you that number. Would you prefer that they unzip their fly and wave it around for you?
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Yes.
Lol. I see how it is. "Then there is no pleezhing you!"
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Lol
Send from the amazing powers of the Z30
Hahahahahahaha. Priceless @ Puz_zled
Thank you.
Yep, it's named "marketing". Is all around
Not bad at all
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Blackberry is doing a great job with bbm for Android. The experience is very similar to bb10
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Could they put the BB10 keyboard in there, just for kicks, just on BBM, ...?
And a link to purchase as an app separately, once the user bites... :-)
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
BlackBerry Experience Suite coming soon to an iPhone and Android near you...
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Paid ongoing subscription and only enterprise...?
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
Imagine if they had cross platform video available for the other platforms along with a big announcement / promotion. Its a lot to ask but BBM music integration would be a nice touch too. Call 7Digital please.
this number means absolutely nothing. the real question is how many of them are actually using BBM?
Who cares. Lol Is the data for WhatsApp any more accurate?
Everybody care. Without people the app is useless.
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I don't care everybody care. I just happily use BBM and not WhatsApp, thanks GOD!!!
Well thats fine you dont care but I care because I know no one who uses BBM and without cross platform video there is no argument for other people to use it over Whatsapp. So I would love to use it but I cant
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Cheers!
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It won't download on my RCA tablet, is says it's incompatible with my device. I need to see if the latest version will work yet.
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BBM doesn't like android tablets for some reason. I had to side-load it on my android tablet. It works fine.
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Download the android apk and install on your tablet if your having problems
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I got it downloaded onto a friend's cheapo $50 JB 4.1 (?) tablet. Go figure.
Maybe they've made it more restrictive now... :-(
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
in Q2 2015, BlackBerry announced approx 90 Million BBM users. So downloads don't mean a thing. I know plenty who have downloaded it, and deleted it. It's a nice round number that BlackBerry I am sure it talking about, but lets see some meaningful numbers from BlackBerry, like how many active accounts are on BlackBerry, iOS and Android... the numbers will probably surprise you as to how low they are, and that's why BlackBerry won't report the facts.
Q2 2015 was last summer. The last figure mentioned by Chen was over 100 million active users.
This is the last I saw, January 2015, 90 million users across all platforms, 70% of that number are daily users. Downloads and bbid registrations don't mean current users. Everyone I know on Android and iOS downloaded it to try at some point, forced to create a bbid, and then uninstalled within a few days.
http://www.cnet.com/news/blackberry-taps-into-cloud-in-making-its-case-f...
They're quoting what are now 6 month old numbers. BlackBerry hasn't released any firm or estimated 'daily user' numbers since September, 2014 (91M). The number has been estimated by some to now stand around 120M active daily users but we won't know any numbers until the next earnings call at the earliest.
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Well, everyone here seemed to think they were current numbers when they were announced and this site reported on it the same day. Especially the 140 million registrations...but left out the drop in active users, compared to the September numbers you're claiming. They also don't post any of the latest market share numbers here any more. Seems like anything that shows decreasing blackberry usage and falling numbers, gets skipped.
http://m.crackberry.com/blackberry-announces-bbm-numbers-2014-previews-u...
It says for all of 2014 in this article.
Q2 2015 starts in April...
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Nope, started last year. BlackBerry is now in FY2016.
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Can you not say the same for every app?
Send from the amazing powers of the Z30
Ey! it's not bad for a enterprise-minded messaging tool like BBM !
Comparing BBM (prosumer) vs WhatsApp (consumers, hipsters, etc) numbers is like comparing apples vs pears
Wow. Now that's something.
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When are they going to give bbm video to everyone. That is when it will really take off. Because then you won't need Skype anymore.
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You won't need Skype until you need to call a landline or someone's mobile that doesn't have Skype...
Lots of people use Skype exclusively for video calling. If bbm brought cross platform video calling to bbm, i'd ditch skype and I know at least three others who would replace it with bbm.
He posted from his sleek Z30.
:-D It was nice to see the Leap on regular news this week. They should keep up getting exposure on TV with all things BB, like the BBM which is available to just about anyone!
Awesome but give us updated and improvements for blackberry
It would be good to get a geographical breakdown. It would be nice to have Samsung pre- load bbm..
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Don't they do and advertise that in certain markets already ...?
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
How about something even better...
Pre-load BBM on Samsung devices and allow them for video calls, Samsung to Samsung and BlackBerry to Samsung.. I don't know if they could manage that, so in case if the apk was extracted it won't work on other Android phones... hmmmmm?
Add a unique Sammy hardware token, or authenticate hardware ID with server...
:-)
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
BBM us pre loaded on many Samsung devices.
But this doesn't mean much because many of these phones are full of bloat ware. People hate bloat ware and resent ut.
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BBM as a bloatware offering video calls is something many people would appreciate I guess
It's nice. But in india still many people don't know that there is a messaging app like BBM...
BlackBerry should tell that in the news about it.
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Ohh! You mean effective advertising.
That would be so..... unlike BlackBerry.
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Lol
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Really? Most don't no know of a app called bbm in india. I really find that hard to believe be use I don't know one Indian ( sub -continental india) that don't either own or is still using BlackBerry. And esp the fact that India is one of BlackBerry biggest clients
Send from the amazing powers of the Z30
Great News! Keep it coming
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But how many times is an update counted?
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Good question. How many active users as well?
It all starts with a download.
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I can't imagine updates count as there have already been a few of them. That would make their numbers well below any logical number of install downloads.
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$$$..Stickers?? I wonder how much $$$$ they made from these downloads?
I've spent way to much on stickers and only have one contact lol, my gf
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She's worth it.
Go, schmooze, her... :-)
(and if you haven't done it yet, she wants a ring to go with the stickers...)
• "Oh Classic, you are the fairest here so true. But Passport is a thousand times more powerful than you..." (no offense, Classic is a great device, when it's charged) •
Was gonna say that prem lol
Send from the amazing powers of the Z30
Sorry but if they are counting downloads from the app store then every update is a download.
Think of it as TOTAL UNIQUE INSTALLS BY A GOOGLE PLAY ACCOUNT and not number of times downloaded or updated. For example, say someone gets a new Android phone and re-downloads BBM, the new download is NOT counted again.
Wrong!
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Just curious, do you guys ask these questions about WhatsApp? So critical of everything BBM. SMH
Exactly.
Some ignorant, stupid people think that is a funny thing to blame BlackBerry. The revenge is near
Funny you should ask...this question was addressed a few comments above yours. Search for acopernic's entry.
yay! I got 3 family members to download BBM on their android phones last month or so!
User is what counts, not downloads
How many BBM users on android are there?
Q10 on 10.3.1.1581
they all use BBM now...
Regular users. Not just people who tried it once.
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I'm still registered as a Whatsapp user but I only used it a few times years ago when a friend on Android suggested it. I'm pretty sure they still count me in their numbers.
With all the updates to BBM I don't know why anyone would use WhatsApp anymore. Or snap chat for that reason.
It's all in one application now.
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WhatsApp is still far easier to use with more features that the majority of consumer swant... the design cohesion of BBM is a little bit disjointed and complicated - getting a lot better though. This extra complication and lack of feature parity that BBM lacks compared to WhatsApp keeps BBM from being used more regularly by consumers. Well that's my quesstimate...
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I've got a few andriod users on my bbm around six could be more though. And as well i got my gf to use bbm from her iPhone 6 with me, was the funnest thing ever she was like a kid in the candy store all I herd was ohhs and awes and wow for a good 15 mns I was starting to wonder what she was doing lol she was amazed at the stickers and how bbm worked lol and as prior said about the notification esp when apps close as she often don't get it until like I ask her how come she didn't reply.
Send from the amazing powers of the Z30
BBM notifications on iPhone still don't work properly. Now that may be a limitation of iOS but still...I got almost 10 people to download BBM onto their iPhones when it released. Not one uses it now.
This is killing BBM on iOS.
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Ios sucks
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This kills the bbm.
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And how!
Thank you!
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The OP is talking about three people not everybody.
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From the next web and checked...
Both Apple and Google tabulate unique downloads of apps per user account. This means that they count only one download of an app no matter how many devices that you install that app on after you purchase it. Neither company counts updates in its app download numbers. These are purely single downloads from their stores.
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+1
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I'd say in 50 millions cases out of these 100 millions, the user removed BBM either because they didn't find their friends in the regular way (phone numbers scan) or because of complicity of the design compared to other available IM apps on Android like WhatsApp, 3rd would be being heavy on resources specially for older phones
Not one of those people is someone I know
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Exactly. No one i know uses it either.
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Me too. None of my friends use them
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Lol!!! you guys should change your circle of friends. A lot of my friends use bbm.
Change our circle of friends because of BBM.........................Give this person a medal.
lol
I don't sale my security by a bunch of hipster friends, thanks
You need some more tinfoil too
I have 2 active users, 2!
It used to be at least 200
Wow a 100 million that's very good
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