[fschmeck]

For all the talk of What's App, Viber, etc. most of the world still uses plain old text.

I recently tried to convert some people to BBM on android, and most simply don't want 2 separate messaging apps. They always say that Sms works for everyone, so why have a basic app that hardly anyone they know uses?

So my question is why isn't BBM unified with Sms on some level? If I could add my contacts in a single place, then I could message them in whichever format I have set for that contact, and have them show up in the same place. You could probably even have group conversations with a mix of both that way.

Just seems like a good way to get people running BBM, then maybe they'd eventually switch to BBM format messaging to take advantage of the extra features.

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[howarmat]

it was back in the BBOS days but it wasnt as clean as it could have been. Imessage does a decent job of this and hangouts does as well. Not sure if BB will do this again or not