According to Canadian
handset maker BlackBerry, its popular chat application BBM for rival
Android-based handsets and iPhones has witnessed over 10 million downloads in
the first 24 hours of its re-launch.
On Tuesday, the under pressure smartphone maker
had begun again the rollout of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).
“It’s been 24 hours since we resumed the launch
of BBM for Android and iPhone. And what a day it’s been! We’ve already had more
than 10 million downloads of BBM,”
BlackBerry EVP (BBM) Andrew Bocking said in a post on the company’s official
Blog.
In September, BlackBerry had stopped the global
rollout of its instant messaging service BBM on rival phones, holding responsible
the delay on issues caused by an unreleased old version of BBM (BlackBerry
Messenger).
“When we saw almost one million people install
an unreleased version of the Android version, another million use workarounds
to download BBM onto their iPhones and another six million people pre-register
to know when BBM became available for iPhone and Android, we knew we were on to
something huge,” he noted.
The application has also seen ‘overwhelmingly
positive reviews’ on Google Play and the App Store. BBM has earned 60,000
five-star reviews on Google Play from about 87,000 reviews, he added.
On Apple’s App Store, BBM rose quickly in the
free app rankings in the first 24 hours, taking the number one slot in more
than 75 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK, Indonesia and most of the
Middle East, Bocking said.
BlackBerry said it will add more new features to
BBM to promote it as the private social network.
“While we’re excited to bring BBM to iPhone and
Android – we aren’t stopping there. Work isn’t slowing down at all. We
committed to delivering a BBM experience on iPhone and Android that was equal
to that on BlackBerry 10. That means bringing BBM Video, BBM Voice and BBM
Channels…
“My team is still committed to bringing those
features to BBM on Android and iPhone in the near future. And we are not
stopping there – we have some great new features planned that will build on BBM
as the private social network you count on for immediate conversations you can
control and trust,” Bocking said.
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