BBM was hot
being the most downloaded Social Messaging App on Apple iPhones in November
2013 based on the stats presented by analyst Distimo‘s latest new messaging App
survey in Forbes Magazine’s writer Tero Kuittinen as stated in the article “Exclusive
New Survey Shows BlackBerry's BBM Beating WhatsApp And SnapChat In Key Markets”,
published 11/26/2013 @ 12:01PM by Tero Kuittinen, Forbes Magazine.
Even more
interesting is that BBM is beating WhatsApp, which according to CTIA stats in
May 2013 was the Top Dog in Social Messaging, a mish mash of Social Networks
and Instant Messaging as reported in my blog article
entitled “CTIA
reports a 5% decline in US Texting as Instant Messaging ramps up - WhatsApp's
now Top Gun as The Dead Zone leads Star Trek Into the Darkness”.
Well not any
more if analyst Distimo’s Stats, as neatly shown in the graph below are
accurate as according to their stats, Blackberry is not only beating WhatsApp
in traditional markets like UK and India where they were never popular on iOS
Platform, but they've gained a decidedly uncomfortable advantage among
smartphone-toting Millennial (ages 18 to 28) customers in the US of A as well.
What makes this
more interesting is that while BBM’s poised to beat WhatsApp, WhatsApp’s
already trouncing Facebook Messaging, who’s No. 1 in the US only based on
analyst OnDevice Stats as noted in my blog article
entitled “Facebook
is Trailing Behind WhatsApp in Social Messaging - Teenagers and Millennials
wooed by Mobile Social Networks on smartphones and Tablets that have
Snapchat-esque Privacy Controls”.
It’ll be very
interesting to see what the stats look like when they come out for Google
Android, the traditional strong and safe haven for WhatsApp. I’d definately
to see the stats in another three (3) to six (6) months time to see if the
usage of the BBM App stacks up to those of WhatsApp. Ditto too the stats on the
Google Android Platform!
This doesn’t
really surprise me; I had pretty much predicted that this would happen as love
for BBM would propel them back to the top of the Social Messaging dogpile as
opined in my blog
article entitled “Blackberry
launched free BBM App for Apple iPhone and Android smartphones - First true
Mobile Social Network is Bob Marley Could You Be loved against WhatsApp”.
BBM now Free - Blackberry Messenger now on a path to
become a Mobile Social Network
In my Geezam blog article entitled “Free
Blackberry Messenger App coming to Android and iOS” I first broke the story
of BBM being made free and coming on Apple iPhones and Google Android
smartphones. Blackberry is now no more and is doomed as pointed out in “Sorry,
but BlackBerry is doomed”, published September 20, 2013 1:15 PM PDT by
Roger Cheng, CNET News, despite so many
Jamaican still clutching on to their Blackberry smartphones.
The very popular
mobile devices has ridden off into the sunset on Tuesday November 5th
2013 as my Geezam blog article entitled “Blackberry
sold to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited as BBM goes free”.
BBM was set free
before the walk the Earth and is now popping tags on Android and iOS noted in Free
Blackberry Messenger App coming to Android and iOS. Meanwhile Former CEO
Mike Lazaridis and Fairfax Financial Holdings are trying to relive the good
times despite the history of Blackberry’s failings as chronicled in my blog article entitled
“Blackberry
being rescued by former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis - Fairfax Financial Holdings
Limited is Fire and Blood as BBM goes free”. They will fail as people love
BBM, not Blackberry!
BBM and the Summer of Love - Rising Tide of the Mobile Social Messaging
Network
This is strong evidence that it was the love for BBM IM (Instant Mesenger)
Platform that was keeping Blackberry going all along in the face of their lack
of innovation as I’d long ago concluded in my Geezam blog
article entitled “Android
smartphones may be king in 2015AD, but RIM Blackberry quality shines” and my
blog article
entitled “Blackberry
launched free BBM App for Apple iPhone and Android smartphones - First true
Mobile Social Network is Bob Marley Could You Be loved against WhatsApp”.
After all, it’s now US$1 to use WhatsApp’s service, meaning it isn’t
absolutely free as noted in my Geezam blog article
entitled “How to use
WhatsApp on your Computer”. With WhatsApp now being slowly eaten by BBM
Love, are we now seeing early signs of the fading glory of WhatsApp?
Only the Stats can tell the Tale of the Rise of the Phoenix called
Blackberry Messenger. Jamaicans can now for the first time switch to a
smartphone and still have BBM as described in my Geezam blog
article entitled “How
to transfer Phone Contacts and Data from your Blackberry to your Apple iPhone
or Google Android smartphone or Tablet”. Essentially enjoyin the Best of
Both Worlds, that being the “in-crowd” and the “smart crowd”!
More later on my personal blog as this story develops!
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