New Delhi: For BlackBerry Messenger fans who spend much of their day before a computer screen had cheered BlackBerry CEO John Chen's March announcement that the company was taking "a very serious look" at bringing BBM to desktop.
With BBM now available for Windows Phone devices, it appeared that the desktop version of the iconic messaging app wouldn't be very far away. But that isn't the case. Now Chen, in an interview to Reuters, says, "I can't tell you whether we are going to do BBM on desktop." Though the BlackBerry CEO says that BlackBerry has the desire to do it, "but between that and getting it done there is still a gap."
If BBM comes to desktop computers it can allow employees of companies and government agencies to go mobile on group chats started on their computers without missing a beat.
BBM, with over 85 million users, was a pioneering mobile-messaging service, but user growth has failed to keep pace with that of WhatsApp and other competitors, in part because BlackBerry had long refused to open the program other platforms.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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