On the heels of Blackberry delaying BBM for Android and iPhone, head of BBM at Blackberry Andrew Bocking made a followup post yesterday. Unfortunately it’s bad news for those eager to get into the BBM game on their Android phone. The unreleased version that was released over the weekend was pulled and blocked by BlackBerry, but it’s also the major reason for the delay…..
Last week, an unreleased, older version of the BBM for Android app was posted on numerous file sharing sites. We were aware of an issue with this unreleased version of the BBM for Android app. This older version resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways. The version we were planning to release on Saturday addressed these issues, however we could not block users of the unreleased version if we went ahead with the launch.
The team is now focused on adjusting the system to completely block this unreleased version of the Android app when we go live with the official BBM for Android app. We are also making sure that the system is reinforced to handle this kind of scenario in the future. While this may sound like a simple task – it's not. This will take some time and I do not anticipate launching this week.
So there you have it. I know it’s cool to get things before they are released, but in this case, it ended up causing a delay. What’s even crazier is the fact that the unreleased version was released only a day before the actual release. Are we really that impatient of a society?
source: BlackBerry
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