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<\/p>\nSorry to my non geek friends…Stop reading before your eyes start bleeding.<\/p>\n
I noticed that Blackberry is releasing a version of the BBM (Blackberry messenger) for iPhone, in 2008 it was a pretty neat application.<\/p>\n
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I used it a lot but it was only really useful if your friends also had Blackberrys.<\/p>\n
The practical upshot is that I had a grand total of about 10 people that I chatted with using the BBM service.<\/p>\n
I’ll admit that there was a momentary “OH Cool<\/em>” when I read that BBM was out on the iPhone.<\/p>\n Then I thought about it.<\/p>\n I can’t think of a single person in my circle of acquaintances that still uses any blackberry device. <\/p>\n Wow! <\/p>\n I really hadn’t thought about how long it had been since I’d even seen a Blackberry, other than the one sitting at the bottom of my sock drawer.<\/p>\n So at this late stage in the game, why the hell is Blackberry even bothering? The single advantage to BBM was that you didn’t use your carrier text messages. BBM used Blackberrys servers and your data plan instead of .20 text messages. <\/p>\n Who doesn’t have unlimited texting these days?<\/p>\n BBM used to be top of the line.<\/p>\n A big disadvantage was that you couldn’t just reach out to anyone. They had to have a blackberry and you had to exchange a PIN number. On the one hand, this completely eliminated SPAM on the other hand the initial sync procedure was a pain in the ass.<\/p>\n How is BBM any better than Apples messenger or simply normal text messages?<\/p>\n There are far more of my friends today that have iPhones. Apples Messenger works across iPad, iPhone, and the latest Mac OS X versions.<\/p>\n It’s simple, efficient, and just works. Messenger sends via your data plan if it knows the other device is something Apple. Your iPhone will select text messaging if the receiving device isn’t Apple. <\/p>\n Had Blackberry continued to dominate the smartphone market and serve their business market, BBM on iPhone and Android today would be a welcome application.<\/p>\n However with the minuscule presence of Blackberry in smartphone market and the growing BYOD (Bring your own device) paradigm. I think the BBM application will suffer a fate similar to Blackberry’s formerly ubiquitous phones, obscurity and eventual irrelevance.<\/p>\n Sad really, when a great company slips and falls like Blackberry has.<\/p>\n Have you heard about Widows 8.1???<\/p>\n Apple will be releasing OS X Mavericks shortly.<\/p>\n As I think about Windows and how poorly the latest versions have been received by the general public.<\/p>\n It occurred to me, if Apple wanted to drive a stake through windows heart (too much TrueBlood<\/em>), they’d release their latest OS for $19.99 on any<\/strong><\/em> Intel platform.<\/p>\n Compared to the outrageous cost of Windows, I wonder how many people would simply say, “yeah I’m done with Windows” and pony up the $.<\/p>\n Perhaps that would be a more merciful death for Windows than “The Death of a thousand fuckups<\/em>” it’s experiencing now. <\/p>\n Nah… Apple won’t be that merciful to Microsoft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry to my non geek friends…Stop reading before your eyes start bleeding. I noticed that Blackberry is releasing a version of the BBM (Blackberry messenger) for iPhone, in 2008 it was a pretty neat application. I used it a lot but it was only really useful if your friends also had Blackberrys. The practical upshot … <\/p>\n![\"NewImage\"](\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NewImage31.png\" "\\"NewImage.png\\"")
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