[jammur]

It's interesting that they have a waiting list. I guess it could just be for marketing purposes, but you'd think that BB probably has the most experience of any company building scalable messaging infrastructure. I can't imagine their system would buckle under the load of a couple million users.

[simonk]

They tried to release it a few weeks ago and it didn't work under the stress. So I'm guessing this is to let it build up a little slower.

[jammur]

I'm sure you're right. I just don't understand how this is a problem that Blackberry could have. They've been doing high volume messaging for longer than anyone. This is a terrible analogy, but it would be like McDonalds having a waiting list for Big Macs at some random new low volume location because they don't know how to make them fast enough. I say low volume because the additional BBM users they're getting from Android and iOS (I would imagine low to mid single digit millions in the short term) can't possibly compare to the number of existing users they have on Blackberry devices.