Impressively, the unauthorised make publicblic was downloaded 1.1 million epoch in eight hours, but this caused a numeral of issues on behalf of the service and BlackBerry assumedmed it wanted to put in them earlier it may perhaps keep on with the launch.
BlackBerry alleged anybodyy who downloaded the iPhone version would still be able to make use ofe use of the service, but the offending version of the Android app has been disabled. At the measure of book, neither version was existingon the App Store or Google Play.
“Our teams resumeo graft around the meter to bring BBM to Android and iPhone, but lone while it’s prepared and we know it will live up to your expectations of BBM,” alleged the company. “We are pausing the universalsal roll-out of BBM on behalf of Android and iPhone.
“As soon as we are able, we will start a staggered nation roll-out of BBM on behalf of Android and keep on the roll-out of BBM on behalf of iPhone. These issues come up with up with not impacted BBM service on behalf of BlackBerry.”
The Android treatment had been expect to launch on Android go on Saturday, with the iPhone app following a timee afterward, and was expected to be the primary measure the messaging service was to be existingon a platform other than BlackBerry smartphones.
The numeral of subscribers who apparently signed up on behalf of the service previous tous to its authorizeded discharge wil hearten BlackBerry, which has even supposedly considered revolving sour its messaging division into a separate company following the dramatic decline of its hardware commercialal.
On Friday, the company announced it was laying sour 4,500 employees, around 40 percent of its workersand alleged it anticipated to lose as much as £624 million in its instant quarter. It is assumedBlackBerry is annoying to meet itself more appealing to capabilityy buyers next it effectively pleasing bids go on month.
