The progenitor of current instant messaging services will stop being accessible to consumer users at the end of May 2019.
Every goodbye is accompanied by a veil of sadness and even that at BBM is no exception. The historic BlackBerry messaging service - precisely the BlackBerry Messenger acronym - has a glorious past behind it , so much so that it has long been considered a killer feature of blackberry devices, but it has long since lost its appeal , under the blows of WhatsApp , Telegram and other rampant competitors. And so BlackBerry felt it was time to pull the plug .
Starting next May 31 , the BBM service will no longer be accessible to consumer users , but will continue only for business users (BBM Enterprise), at a cost of $ 2.49 for 6 months (the first year will be free). A story that began in 2005 will therefore close , pushing the last users of the service to migrate to other shores.