BBID vs PIN: not happy about the change
Anyone else concerned about the BBID direction vs PIN direction RIM is taking with BBM.
One of the unique things about BBM is the ability to pick up your new BB and start bbming out of the box, no set up required, no personal information needing set up. Nothing really to be used as an excuse once you have a Blackberry to not use bbm.
The transition to BBID unless it is linked with your carrier.blackberry.net address you set up woth the phone just makes BBM another chat client like LiveProfile, why would a new user set up BBID if they already have LiveProfile? How do you convert them to BBM?
What I like about BBID for me is the constant changing of BB's means I keep a consistent BBM list that is easy to maintain across devices and am not finding add requests when I switch back to a phone.
So what would make me happy?
A default BBID applied to a device PIN number so you don't HAVE to create a BBID, but you have the choice in registering your PIN to an existing BBID or using the default BBID, allowing you if desired to add extra information to your BBID for back up purposes.
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