It’s been practically forever since BlackBerry sat on the smartphone throne. And now one of the last remnants from BlackBerry’s heyday is about to disappear.…
It’s been practically forever since BlackBerry sat on the smartphone throne. And now one of the last remnants from BlackBerry’s heyday is about to disappear.
That would be BlackBerry Messenger or BBM, a mobile messaging app created way back in 2005 when BlackBerry was run by the Canadian enterprise known then as Research In Motion or RIM.
Since 2016, BBM has been under the auspices of Creative Media Works, a division of PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk or Emtek, one of Indonesia’s largest media, content and tech businesses.
The company has just blogged that on May 31, the consumer version of BBM would be shutting down for good. (A fee-based enterprise version remains.)
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“We poured our hearts into making this a reality, and we are proud of what we have built to date,” the company wrote.
