BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB)’s messaging app BBM have hit a major milestone on the Android platform. The app has already hit the mark of 100 million installs and with this it has made place for itself among the top most downloaded messaging apps on Google Play.
Rising popularity of BBM on Android
BlackBerry released the BBM app for Android in late October 2013, and it took the company a little more than a year’s time to reach the mark of 100 million installs. The app received about 2.4 million 5-star views of 3.7 million total reviews.
The stickers on BBM are also very popular, and the users have sent more than 1 billion stickers for now, the blog noted, adding that the BBM shop receives about 1 billion virtual goods impressions a month. Such numbers are sufficient to show that the momentum of growth of the BBM app is very tremendous, and the future is going to be even brighter.
BBM app is now available on four different platforms of which Android is one, and the other three are BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB), iOS and the Windows Phone. “So while 100 million installs is a big number, it’s still just a fraction of the total,” according to a blog post. “100 million is great, but a billion is even better.”
BlackBerry offers more features
BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) (TSE:BB) released the latest Android version 2.7 on March 2, 2015, offering big improvements to the BBM users. Of all the features of BBM, the most requested was the ability to create a customized BBM Pin, which is unique and can be easily shared. The company now allows its customers to create a custom pin of their choice that is 6-8 digits alphanumeric. At the price of $1.99 per month, custom PINs can be bought from the BBM Shop.
With the update, Android Wear support has also been made available by BlackBerry. With the support from Android Wear, BBM users will be able to communicate in a faster and more discreet manner on the go. More benefits for customers that come with BBM for Android Wear are the ability of receiving alerts of new messages on the watch, and also discreetly pre-viewing the messages among few others.
“Just because we hit 100 million installs on Google Play doesn’t mean we have to stop there. Download the latest version today and help us get to a billion,” said the blog.
