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Are you seriously comparing Black Berry Messenger to Slack? I had to Google BBM, and laughed when I saw that because people in businesses did not use Black Berr
by elliotec 10y ago
Are you seriously comparing Black Berry Messenger to Slack? I had to Google BBM, and laughed when I saw that because people in businesses did not use Black Berry, or BBM, in any capacity even close to Slack.
I agree with most points on your original post though.
- balls187 10y agoStraw man. I wasn't comparing slack's feature set to BBM, just refuting the point that before Slack, barely any businesses used group messaging. > Pre-slack virtually no businesses used realtime group chat. BBM, Real time group messaging, used by businesses. It was popular long before group messaging was popular. Yes blackberry is now a joke, but there was a time when many businesses provided employees BB for communication, and it's users loved BBM. ... That comment also missed the point: Slack didn't enter a new market (the claim from the referenced article), it entered a market that already was saturated, and by having a better product, is winning in that market. Hipchat, Campfire, Lync, et al, are all competing for the same customers that Slack competes for. Whether slack is better for businesses, or whether it was a direct competitor to BBM, completely misses the point.
- anonbanker 10y agoMost Canadian companies, as well as most of the US government before 2005, used BBM the way most people use slack today. it was the killer app of enterprise. What were you using in 2005 to communicate internally in your company?