{"id":87368,"date":"2013-09-22T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=87368"},"modified":"2013-09-22T09:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T07:28:47","slug":"bbm-for-iphone-here-bbm-for-android-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87368-bbm-for-iphone-here-bbm-for-android-delayed.html","title":{"rendered":"BBM for iPhone here, BBM for Android delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry launched its Blackberry Messenger (BBM) app for iPhone in some countries today, but the Android version did not launch on 21 September as expected (Also see <a title=\"BBM launch delay\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87379-bbm-for-android-iphone-delay.html\"><strong>BBM launch delay<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Previously exclusive to BlackBerry smartphones, BBM is now available in some countries as a free download in the iTunes App stores (and soon the Google Play store).<\/p>\n<p>While BBM is a very popular mobile messaging service among BlackBerry users in South Africa, it is competing against heavyweights like WhatsApp and WeChat on Android and iOS.<\/p>\n<p>The competitiveness of the mobile messaging field is clearly illustrated when looking at the Google Play store\u2019s \u201cTop Free Android Apps\u201d \u2013 WhatsApp, Facebook, WeChat and Skype.<\/p>\n<p>Android users who are keen to download BBM should be warned \u2013 numerous fake BBM apps have shown up from developers like \u201cBlackBerry Inc\u201d and &#8220;BBM Messenger for Android Devices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear why Blackberry delayed the launch of its BBM for Android app. \u00a0The company only said: &#8220;Thanks for your patience. Working hard to get you the real BBM ASAP. We\u2019ll let you know when it is live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on BBM for Android, iOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87206-bbm-for-android-iphone-here-this-week.html\"><strong>BBM for Android, iPhone here this week<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBM for Android, iPhone: how it will work\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87282-bbm-for-android-iphone-how-it-will-work.html\"><strong>BBM for Android, iPhone: how it will work<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry was expected to launch BBM for Android on 21 September; but a day later, only the iPhone version is available to non-BlackBerry users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,605,101,97,35,1125],"class_list":["post-87368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-bbm","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87371,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87368\/revisions\/87371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}