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Originally Posted by OilKiller
I don't pretend to know RIM's plans by any means, but usually when you have a feature that is exclusive and something that gets people to buy your product, you tend to not let the other guys have it.
My step daughter and all her friends all bought BB's to talk via BBM. They might not have if they could have bought any phone to do that.
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Yeah, who knows what their long term plan or strategy is, it’s all speculation.
With your step daughter and her friends, it would be interesting to see what would happen if two or three members of her social circle defected to another platform. I wonder if they are wedded to the app, or if the results the app facilitates are more important, and they would migrate to something cross-platform.
Edit: one other thing I find interesting is that BBM has suddenly become labeled a “killer app” - this is a fairly recent phenomenon. A few months ago there was a lot of noise being made in the BB camp about how BB’s were the savior of wireless bandwidth by virtue of being more efficient with data (which they are)...I wonder if some of this is grassroots marketing or BB fans trying to highlight the relevance of the BB platform (it is still highly relevant, obviously, but iPhone and Android sure get a lot more written about them these days)