
So long, and thanks for all the messages. Notably, BBM Enterprise will live on for business users, but the death of the consumer version should be regarded as the end of an important era for smartphones nonetheless. Loyalists can still download files, photos and videos from the service today, before they vanish forever. “The technology industry however, is very fluid, and in spite of our substantial efforts, users have moved on to other platforms, while new users proved difficult to sign on.” “We poured our hearts into making this a reality, and we are proud of what we have built to date,” Emtek wrote in a blog post last month. BBM® Enterprise is a secure mobile, cross-platform, messaging and collaboration tool.

The rewards, it seems, weren’t worth the resources. Download BBM Enterprise and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Technology and the world moved away from BBM and BlackBerry at large.

For many years, BBM was considered BlackBerry’s (nee Research in Motion) strongest product, with some loyalists eschewing Android and iOS devices before it was finally ported over to those operating systems in 2013.īut competition ultimately proved too much. Launched in 2005, licensing rights for the service were acquired by Indonesia-based tech conglomerate Emtek 11 years later. Send and receive text messages and establish exchanges on your mobile device if you're away from your computer. The once-mighty messaging service had a good run, outstripping the popularity of its hardware namesake. Facebook Messenger is the official Facebook messaging app that will allow you to chat with all your friends from the popular social network. Just over a month ago, Emtek announced the end of BlackBerry Messenger for consumers.
