RIM is not releasing BlackBerry Messenger for iPhone on April 26th

By on Mar 30, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Exclusive March 30, 2011

We knew this story was a hoax when we first saw it, but we reached out to Research In Motion to get an official comment from the company. RIM tells us that rumors that BlackBerry Messenger might launch as an app for Apple’s iPhone on April 26th, is false. “RIM did not hold a conference in Toronto this week, and Jim Balsillie did not speak at any event in Toronto this week.” We’re not saying it isn’t coming at some point in the future, but BlackBerry Messenger is definitely not hitting the App Store on April 26th.

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  • http://twitter.com/mikemimik afrolion

    Lol, I think it’s funny that any site would publish this news in the first place without contacting RIM. So ridiculous.

    • Bringit

      haha! yeah! lol! lol! lol! why would a blog EVER post a rumor. EVER! Blogs are the pinnacle of only posting FACTUAL and PROVEN things.

      • Tim242

        Not as long as your comments are posted on them…

      • Bringit

        Gayest post ever.

      • Tim242

        Nope, the gayest post ever was the one where you told us about your
        fragmented crotch crickets.

        • Droid X •

      • Bringit

        “Tim242 2 minutes ago in reply to Bringit
        Nope, the gayest post ever was the one where you told us about your
        fragmented crotch crickets.”

        That one would also be you.
        You are a liar as well as carry the title of gayest post ever in BGR.

        Page 8 of the “HTC ThunderBolt review” thread, for those who are actually interested in facts:

        “Tim242 2 days ago in reply to Bringit
        In your crotch? You might want to get that treated.”

      • Tim242

        LoL thanks for reminding me. Your crotch crickets cracked me up : )

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  • http://infotainmentempire.blogspot.com Rob

    I don’t even remember seeing anything about this “rumor” in the first place. I do remember seeing posts about how BBM might go to other platforms, but not specifically which one and when.

  • Pookguy88

    Mobilesyrup was the site that first published the rumor

  • http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/vendor/1111 Eric at Ebscer

    Of course this was fake. Even if RIM was planning to do this, there is no way Apple would give RIM a preview of their new notification system.

    The fact that none of the other details are anywhere near right is just amusing…

  • Jerry

    Mobilesyrup and Phone Arena along with a few other sites posted it.

  • max

    BB messenger is for morons who don’t know how to use apps and are stuck in 1997. They probably still use Netscape.

    • Yoyoma

      you obviously never used a BB.

      Just die.

      • max

        Move into 2011 already!

      • Mike

        Get life Max – apps are for loosers who only can interact with their follow geeks. BB is for professionals who need an excellent all-rounder communication tool.

        Please save your looser attitude to other bloogs (e.g., iPhone?)

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

        Wow harsh…. And i’ve used SEVERAL Blackberries, 8100 > 8310 > 8900 > 9530 > 9700, and i will say that BBM is for tweenage girls and soccer moms.

        [voice of Gru]
        light buulllbbbb
        [/voice of Gru]

        Push Facebook, push twitter and BBM… Maybe Blackberry should start marking to Tweenagers and Soccer moms…. make sense to me.

    • mascar

      You’re such a RIM troll dude. Cruuuuuuuuising around the comments section to whine about RIM and why your bunghole is so much looser because you have an iPhone or whatever.

  • http://doomz.posterous.com doomsdayblaze

    Welp, guys. Guess it’s back to LiveProfile for the foreseeable future.

  • Anonymous

    It will happen eventually though, which is why it’s such a good rumour to put out there. :-)

    BBM is their key asset. When the Playbook fails they will circle the wagons around the BBM service.

    • Anonymous

      You’re so silly, the same was said about their email service. Email was their key asset and when the competition catches up it’s all over.Now it’s BBM. It’s their NOC that will keep them unique in the space and will keep making them money.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

      They are already doing it. Haven’t you seen the new RIM ads on the BewbToob. Thats all they beat are the BBM drum….

  • boogie

    Honestly BB has very little going for it vs other smartphones out there. BBM is 1 big thing they have. Yes BB’s email and calendaring integration is probably the best out there (haven’t seen WinMo7) but otherwise BB as a piece of hardware are basically junk.

    Before the smartphone craze and the massive amounts of development and integration on them, BB’s definitely were the king of the hill – but that time has passed.

  • Booboolala2000

    But who’s to say that it isn’t coming to Android. Quid-Pro-Quo. Blackberry gives some love to Android, and Android lets Blackberry run some Apps from the Android Market on the Playbook. I could see that happening. Possibly.

    • Booboolala2000

      Kids playing nice in the sandbox.

    • Ummz

      Because of course the coding between droid apps and BB apps are same -.-

  • Anonymous

    Now I have to keep my blackberry

  • http://twitter.com/fromero715 Francisco Romero

    it will probably be done by the time iphone 5 comes out.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares.

  • KCRic

    No shit. What a waste of space…

  • H4rr33

    ROFL, whoever believed that shouldn’t even be allowed to write anywhere near a mobile tech site. BBM is what essentially sells a BB, my 12y old brother even knows that. Otherwise RIM would be forced to go the way of Nokia.

    And the most retarded thing is how the writer referenced back the same article that started the rumor. What an idiot. Go write for Fox News you dumb pos.

  • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

    I use BBM to flirt with whomever has a Blackberry….which is no one.

  • br14

    BBM relies on RIMs infrastructure.

    They could link up other devices but the battery life on those devices would degrade just as badly as it does with Kik etc.

    Right now all devices but RIM’s have to poll. That means considerably more network traffic even when noone loves you. You may not realise your battery death is because you’re running instant messaging, but it is.

    BB on the other hand, have data pushed to them and don’t have to poll. It’s the reason BBM is possible. And the reason noone can touch RIM for messaging. BBM is real time (except when the traffics bad :-) – the others are at best near real time.

    There

  • http://www.panaceamobile.com/ Samantha Goldberg

    In my opinion, if this were to happen, it would be a thoughtless act on behalf of RIM. BB Messenger is so unique to the Blackberry brand.

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