Re: The case for cross platform BBM
What about BBM sending messages to whatever transport mechanism your friend has on his/her phone? The idea would be that you, with a BB, have a seamless experience where you use BBM to send your message and your friend gets it and can reply. BBM can still be exclusive among BB users and you can still easily communicate with your friends.
Re: The case for cross platform BBM
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cbvinh What about BBM sending messages to whatever transport mechanism your friend has on his/her phone? The idea would be that you, with a BB, have a seamless experience where you use BBM to send your message and your friend gets it and can reply. BBM can still be exclusive among BB users and you can still easily communicate with your friends.
So basically, BBM can speak all the languages? I like it! So you'd have a nice tidy unified interface on your BlackBerry, and you could add contacts of any sort of messaging platform. You'd have to license them all (could be expensive, considering Apple), but that would be awesome. Kind of like putting all your SMS contacts into BBM, but extended.
Re: The case for cross platform BBM
Originally Posted by
cbvinh What about BBM sending messages to whatever transport mechanism your friend has on his/her phone? The idea would be that you, with a BB, have a seamless experience where you use BBM to send your message and your friend gets it and can reply. BBM can still be exclusive among BB users and you can still easily communicate with your friends.
This would be a technical nightmare to code. There will always have to be a middle man to 'translate' the data and convert it to whatever BBM understands. Not to mention the licensing costs and it's very doubtful Appler or MS will ever license their proprietary software and give access to pieces of code needed to make this work. Giving support would be a disaster, if either party changes anything you need to recode...nightmare.
Easiest way is create different BBM clients for different platforms and have a layer in between the client and NOC infrastructure. This way all tech stays in house.
Re: The case for cross platform BBM
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wout000 This would be a technical nightmare to code. There will always have to be a middle man to 'translate' the data and convert it to whatever BBM understands. Not to mention the licensing costs and it's very doubtful Appler or MS will ever license their proprietary software and give access to pieces of code needed to make this work. Giving support would be a disaster, if either party changes anything you need to recode...nightmare.
Easiest way is create different BBM clients for different platforms and have a layer in between the client and NOC infrastructure. This way all tech stays in house.
OK. I'm not a programmer, so my thought may be stupid. But you're nixing compatibility with multiple other apps because of the programming nightmare. But what about joining forces with one popular app? Wouldn't there be less of a programming issue if BBM only needed to program compatibility with only one nonBIS app -- Whatsapp, Kik, G-talk, whatever? And the other app maker then programmed in BBM compatibility? Just thinking out loud.
Re: The case for cross platform BBM
Originally Posted by
wout000 This would be a technical nightmare to code. There will always have to be a middle man to 'translate' the data and convert it to whatever BBM understands. Not to mention the licensing costs and it's very doubtful Appler or MS will ever license their proprietary software and give access to pieces of code needed to make this work. Giving support would be a disaster, if either party changes anything you need to recode...nightmare.
Back in the day, the Amiga had this paradigm called Datatypes. If you were writing an image manipulation program, you didn't have to code the individual load/save routines for the various image formats. You just needed to access the Datatypes library. The user could install new Datatypes into a specific directory and the image manipulation program would support the new format. This works even if a new image format was created long after the image manipulation program was created and/or compiled. There were Datatypes for images, audio and video.
So, why not BBM with a Datatypes translator for the various IM/SMS mechanisms? If you allow the Datatypes to be user installable, it would open up BBM to having third party developed translators.
The case for cross platform BBM
BBM shouldn't go cross platform if it does those that want to stay for BBM no longer have a reason too stripped down version or not. You wanna find out what BBM is about go buy a BB, you want iMessage you get and iOS device no?
we want people coming to RIM right, not leaving. I seen BBM connected mentioned its useful if used right i.e games, fb, twitter, 4square ...the implementation could be a lil better but i hope we all see that improved in BB10 we will also see better apps when BB10 drops and i like the convenience of sharing information through BBM opposed to sending a text ..at the end of the day i see BBM with the capability to be the first mobile social network which is very advanced due to apps enhancing its functionality
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