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by songgao 4622 days ago
Downloaded, installed, and opened App hoping to see a modern Blackberry. And here's what I got:

    Due to the incredible demand there is a line-up to start using BBM.
Incredible demand? You just launched it and there's not even a review on App Store yet. Not sure if this is part of their marketing or something, but now I feel bothered and not expecting at all. Btw, the UI of the "line-up" screen really needs some refinement IMHO.
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It seems like they're trying to stoke artificial demand (similar to the Mailbox.app roll out). Except I doubt there is a real technical problem backing said slow rollout.
BBM alledgedly had load issues because of a leaked android version maybe a month ago....
You don't even need to wait for it. I just clicked through the waiting screen and logged in.
This doesn't work for me (on an iPhone).