So basically pivot into what became whatsapp[0]? My recollection of Blackberry from that time was the "killer app" was email on the go -- hence the term Crackb

So basically pivot into what became whatsapp[0]? My recollection of Blackberry from that time was the "killer app" was email on the go -- hence the term Crackberry and the publicity from Obama [1] I didn't personally hear about BBM until the 2011 London riots [2] I guess blackberry was aimed at two distinct types of customers -- teenagers using BBM, and white collars wanting to read their email on holiday [0] https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-thoughts-about-my-free-iphone-app-whatsapp.html https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho... [1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4207267/Barack-Obamas-BlackBerry-endorsement-worth-tens-of-millions.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/42072... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-facebook-twitter-blackberry https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-f...