BBM mystery: Why is it so much more popular on iOS than Android?

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YudpHnjK7qIMiXmnG1xKjw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/bbm_android_thorsten_henis_blackberry_sign.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/bbm-mystery-why-much-more-popular-ios-android-213537514.html)It’s been more than a month after BlackBerry Messenger debuted for the iOS and Android platforms and it is still doing remarkably well on the iPhone. On November 22nd, BBM was a top 5 iOS app for downloads in no fewer than 50 countries, including important markets like South Africa, Nigeria, Argentina, Colombia, the UAE, Canada and the U.K. I think it’s-safe bet to say that almost nobody expected BBM to be battling evenly with WhatsApp in their download competition-in markets like India and the U.K. at the end of November. Yet BBM has been able to demonstrate uncanny longevity in a variety of Latin American, African, European and Asian iPhone-markets. At the same time, BBM’s performance-on the-Android platform has



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