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09-23-2013, 09:14 PM
Yes, 2013 has been a hellish ordeal for BlackBerry. The saga may soon be over if the $4.7 billion Fairfax deal happens, but in the meantime there was finally a ray of light this weekend as the BBM blog-announced an unofficial leak of BlackBerry Messenger for Android received an impressive-1.1 million downloads in just eight hours. This leak triggered a delay for the release of the official version, which messed up the plans to get BBM for Android out by Sunday… because it wouldn’t be BlackBerry without some kind of launch disaster. But hitting 1.1 million downloads for the Android app-is a real-feat, no matter how you slice it. A lot of this could be rubbernecking, but at least there
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