[brian4591]

I went to Android Central to find some more info on BBM for Gingerbread. I was appalled. Might be some kind of joke but I don't get it.

Besides the article, the comments are absolutely horrible as well. Looks like The Verge webpage.

BBM for Android now compatible with Gingerbread | Android Central

Here is the article:

BBM for Android now compatible with Gingerbread
By Jerry Hildenbrand | Feb 18 2014 | 5:54 pm | 91 Comments

BBM
Thank you so much blackberry team. I was waiting this app. Its really great user friendly and smooth.

Via: CrackBerry

I know this isn't a big story but for someone that was wanting more info this was useless! Trying to help my dad with getting Gingerbread on his old android device (remotely). Android Central is not CrackBerry (in quality). Guess I have just had it really good being a BlackBerry user and getting CrackBerry as my home site.

Brian

[Elite1]

What? It's just very concise.
If you're worthy of BBM you'll figure it out yourself.

I'm kidding, of course. The article is positive enough, so that's nice. But even a link or two to past articles on how to use BBM would be nice (and appropriate) touch.

I'm going to go check out the comments in a few minutes.

[brian4591]

Thank you for looking into this.

How is the article "positive enough"? Apparently it is some "joke" to everyone. I don't get it.
As a sister site to CrackBerry I am ashamed.

Here are some bad samples from the comments:

grunt0300 says:
BBM? Who needs it. Let it die with BlackBerry.

kcerica says:
BBM for gingerbread might've been useful 3 yrs ago. It goes right along with BlackBerry's unofficial logo- a little too late

Brian

[kbz1960]

Thank you for looking into this.

How is the article "positive enough"? Apparently it is some "joke" to everyone. I don't get it.
As a sister site to CrackBerry I am ashamed.

Here are some bad samples from the comments:





Brian

Well if that's how they feel then they have no chance.

[brian4591]

Well if that's how they feel then they have no chance.

Who is "they"? I was a little confused by the comment.

[kbz1960]

Who is "they"? I was a little confused by the comment.

Android users, former BBRY users.

Edit: and they BBRY don't have a chance with BBM being all that successful on other platforms.

[Kobe Barksdale]

Who needs it? Lmfao old BBRY users on Android kill me with "let it die with BlackBerry" comments
Who needs it? Ask the 10 million plus users on Android 4.0

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[DenverRalphy]

The article wasn't offensive toward BBRY or BBM at all.

If you don't or didn't get the joke, don't automatically assume it was a dig at Blackberry. Cuz it wuzn't.

[brian4591]

The article wasn't offensive toward BBRY or BBM at all.

If you don't or didn't get the joke, don't automatically assume it was a dig at Blackberry. Cuz it wuzn't.

I went to the post for information on BBM for Gingerbread. All I got was a "joke" from the article and a bunch of crap comments. Poorly done site.

[sonicwheeler]

AC is full of the classiest bloggers.

[howarmat]

lmao...i found it funny as hell actually.

[Daniel Montanaro]

As the saying goes, haterz gon' hate.

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[eldricho]

Definitely not a BlackBerry hater (addicted), but that joke is definitely funny for me.

Can't convince everyone to switch to BBM in the short term of course. Remember that the BlackBerry name is badly damaged (although it has come up a little better since the BlackBerry 10 launch), so people sometimes hate everything that has to do with BlackBerry, how good it even might be. It's very sad to see tho.

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[kbz1960]

Definitely not a BlackBerry hater (addicted), but that joke is definitely funny for me.

Can't convince everyone to switch to BBM in the short term of course. Remember that the BlackBerry name is badly damaged (although it has come up a little better since the BlackBerry 10 launch), so people sometimes hate everything that has to do with BlackBerry, how good it even might be. It's very sad to see tho.

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Not much different than mentioning android or iPhone on here and how some react

[chrizrun30]

Why you bother give comments on that forum?
Such a bad ways of wasting your time.

(also considered as a good place to make your blood pressure pumped high x_x )

[brian4591]

Why you bother give comments on that forum?
Such a bad ways of wasting your time.

(also considered as a good place to make your blood pressure pumped high x_x )

First time I really went over there. Was going for information relating to the posting (No info given). Then went into comments to look for advice and couldn't believe the useless crap that was in there. So yes blood pressure go a little high and I felt it was necessary to do a little BlackBerry defending from all the nonsense that was on there.

[AidenSurvival]

You guys do know that Jerry is referencing the reviews of BBM that plagued BBM when it first launched on the Play Store, right?

[Tsepz_GP]

First time I really went over there. Was going for information relating to the posting (No info given). Then went into comments to look for advice and couldn't believe the useless crap that was in there. So yes blood pressure go a little high and I felt it was necessary to do a little BlackBerry defending from all the nonsense that was on there.

I don't see the problem, or at least I don't get why you're making such a big deal about it. They posted a link to the full CrackBerry article and if you want the app you should know to go to Play Store on your Android.

I beg to differ, the articles at Android Central are of good quality and good humor, not everyone will agree I guess but that's just how any other blog is. As for the comments, do you honestly expect anything else considering BB's state in the last 2years?

[brian4591]

I don't see the problem, or at least I don't get why you're making such a big deal about it. They posted a link to the full CrackBerry article and if you want the app you should know to go to Play Store on your Android.

I beg to differ, the articles at Android Central are of good quality and good humor, not everyone will agree I guess but that's just how any other blog is. As for the comments, do you honestly expect anything else considering BB's state in the last 2years?

Here's my problem with it: There is no information relating to the article. I was on CrackBerry first for info (not much) so I thought oh Android Central will tell me everything I need to know regarding it. EVEN WORSE! Think about the people that are wondering, "should I put BBM on my Gingerbread phone. Wonder what features it has? Lets check out Android Central". NO INFO. USELESS!

This is the info I was hoping for:

Gingerbread BBM does not have
BBM Voice
One sided details:
Can go from Z10 to Gingerbread (but not the other way around)
Glympse
Dropbox
Works:
File sharing
Pictures
Calendar
Group chats
Get it HERE. (link)

See that is what was needed. Then you add the funny joke. I have PM'd Jerry the author about this but he doesn't have the dignity to respond.