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I'd say it's intentional due to Hanlon's razor in upper management. Perhaps some logic like this: we can't lose "our" BBM users but blocking IM apps would driv
by divtxt 15y ago
I'd say it's intentional due to Hanlon's razor in upper management.
Perhaps some logic like this: we can't lose "our" BBM users but blocking IM apps would drive users and developers away. Let's quietly block IM apps at the approval stage!
Also, "anti-competitive" is the wrong description - unless you count killing your own company. :D
- akc 15y agoI can corroborate with the author's story. I'm developing the BB app for a cross-platform group messaging app and I've also hit a wall of silence from RIM. I can confirm that they are deliberately not giving us access to certain parts of RIM's infrastructure that would make things a lot easier for us. Oh well, guess we'll have to engineer our way around those roadblocks and then open source it!
- divtxt 15y agoI'd love to hear your history, reasons and current attitude to developing BB apps. The stories* tell me that the RIM/BB developer experience is so much worse than iOS and Android that it's not worth bothering with (as developers and hence as a viable platform). * the big ones: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263882 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2263882 ("You Win, RIM!") and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714270 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714270 ("Open letter to BlackBerry bosses")