Saturday, June 8, 2013

Blackberry Messenger wants - default app to competition - NU.nl

Blackberry talks with several manufacturers to install.

the app from its BlackBerry Messenger service standard on competing smartphones

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, reports Cnet . “There is interest from several smartphone manufacturers,” said Kristian Tear Blackberry. The online messaging service in the coming period also rolled out to iOS and Android.

However

Blackberry prefers that manufacturers install the app on their devices and flour springs as standard app. The phone maker focuses mainly on his statements Android manufacturers.


Users

Blackberry Messenger has an active user base of 61 million users, 70 percent of the app used daily. According Tear other manufacturers have this large group of users also benefit from the default install BlackBerry Messenger on their handsets.

“We do not find it risky to install Blackberry Messenger standard on other devices,” responds Tear on whether users are not flocking to switch to other mobile operating systems. “If we have found this a risk we had acted differently.”

By: NU.nl / Daniel Verlaan

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