BBM for Android episode: BlackBerry clarifies its side
BBM for Android episode: BlackBerry clarifies its side
Putting a rest to all speculation about
why the BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iOS isn’t available at the
moment, BlackBerry has released its side of the entire episode, where
the company blames the leaked versions of BBM for causing the issue that
“impacted the system in abnormal ways”. It was just yesterday that we
were mentioning on this website regarding the serious need of ensuring
some quality control on the Google Play Store. (Read it in detail here).
Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry
clarified BlackBerry’s side in a post. He says, “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. We
attempted to address the problems caused by the unreleased version
throughout the day on Saturday, but as active users of the unreleased
app neared a million – and accelerated – it became clear that the only
way to address the issue was to pause the rollout for both Android and
iPhone.”
However, all is not lost, despite
BlackBerry confirming that the BBM rollout will not happen this week at
least. “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.”
Clearly, because of the “open” nature of
one platform, the iOS users also have to suffer, as BlackBerry is in
the process of a massive cleanup at the system level. Maybe, too much
freedom is a bad thing.
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