BBM rollout for Android and iOS not resuming this week: BlackBerry
It looks like the aborted rollout of the cross-platform
version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) will take more time to resume, according
to a statement by a BlackBerry spokesperson.
After pausing the global rollout of the popular messaging
app to Android and iOS, on Saturday, Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry,
posted a note on the official BlackBerry blog, saying that the resumption of
the rollout would take some time, and that he did not anticipate it launching
this week.
He clarified that an unreleased version of the BBM for
Android app leaked online prior to the app's official release on the Play
Store, which resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than
normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways. He said
that the final version of BBM would have addressed these issues, however the
company could not have blocked users of the unreleased version if it had gone
ahead with the launch.
"We attempted to address the problems caused by the
unreleased version throughout the day on Saturday, but as active users of the
unreleased app neared a million - and accelerated - it became clear that the
only way to address the issue was to pause the rollout for both Android and
iPhone," said Bocking.
Bocking added that the BBM team was now focused on adjusting
the system to completely block the unreleased version of the Android app when
the official BBM for Android app goes live, and that BlackBerry was making sure
that the system was reinforced to handle this kind of scenario in the future.
He said that the company would update users on the rollout
through its online and social media channels.
It's worth pointing out that the iOS version of the BBM app
did hit Apple's App Store in some countries in the Eastern Hemisphere early
hours of Sunday, but BlackBerry paused the further rollout of the app in other
countries, and even pulled the app from countries it did release in.
Users who managed to install the iOS version of BlackBerry
Messenger before it was pulled can still use the app.
Source: NDTV
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