BlackBerry Head of BBM Details Plans for BBM – Deflates Hope for Desktop Client

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BlackBerry’s new head of Enterprise and BBM, John Sims, has only been on the job for a few months but he already seems to be detailing his plans. He laid out to CNET some of his plans and goals for BBM and how 40% of BBM users are now on other platforms. He also said that he found of the 85 million users, 25 million were enterprise users who were just using it organically. That is why they developed enterprise focused eBBM.

Sims also goes into why BBM went cross platform but what really shot down my hopes is when he was asked if a desktop BBM client was in his plans. Sims suggested that BlackBerry’s priorities and key markets were very much focused on mobile. Now if only they would have asked him if multi-device BBM would finally be coming…

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