RIM embeds its BBM chat
Research In Motion wants software developers to use its popular instant messaging tool within their applications to enable friends to play games, share and discuss news, and decide where they will eat dinner.RIM took the covers off an update that it hopes will prod more developers to write code for its devices. The company's BlackBerry App World pales in comparison with those for Apple and Google, which garner much more interest from independent developers. Some 45 million people use BBM - which allows BlackBerry users with data plans to instantly pass text messages, pictures and other files without incurring charges from their network carrier - and 70 percent of them use it daily.
"That lends itself to a different type of experience," said Alistair Mitchell, RIM's vice president for the BBM platform and integrated services. "We're trying to transpose that so it's available to our third-party developers globally."
RIM's director of developer relations, Mike Kirkup said, "The simplest use of the updated BBM tool would require just three lines of code while developers could, with a bit more work, choose to route all their traffic through RIM's servers. Developers that integrate BBM could expect existing users to spend more time on the app and for it to encourage more viral distribution. For every developer, getting people into your app more and getting more people to find your app are the two major problems they stay awake thinking about every single day."
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