Blackberry Messenger

Constancey

[FONT=&quot]Even though I’ve used a Blackberry for years, I never gotten around to purchase Blackberry service on it. So I never used the Blackberry Messenger. BB users keep telling me how awesome it is and how different that normal IM/texting. Now it’s coming to iPhone & Android. Won’t take away the exclusivity of it to BB users? Or am I on a wrong train of thought?:p[/FONT]

Shorty

Yes, it will take away the exclusive nature of being BB only. It's one of the key things I miss from moving to iPhone.

It's not that radically different but the transport mechanism is. It's routed via the carriers network and onwards into the RIM infrastructure. That adds things like compression, RIM level load balancing and the uniqueness of PINs.

the_technocrat

and dependency on RIM, one extra layer of potential problem to troubleshoot, etc.

Thrax

Glorified MMS mated to a miserable OS.

the_technocrat

FWIW, people at our organization try to use BBM for unofficial non-work-related slackerness during work hours. We stock spare BB's in case of problems and have a pretty good churn because of abuse of the devices.

Dummehs wanting to use BBM + swapping out BB's like crazy = hilarity. (BBM PINs are on the device, not the SIM/number)

"I sent...er...something...to x person, and y person got it. Is the server down?"

'Depends - what did you send?'

"Oh...it's not important, we can check it out whenever..." *runs away*

*entire IT dept chuckles*

Cyclonite

the_technocrat wrote:

and dependency on RIM, one extra layer of potential problem to troubleshoot, etc.

I've been preaching this to my company for ages. I'm not a fan of BB.