Era of Inter-Service Chat Tool, Fuel Success Dominate
The rapid development of communication technology with a smartphone presence. With the internet connectivity on the device, the function is no longer just a phone call or SMS. Mobile phones can now be used to explore the virtual world, and of course online chat.
In the early days of the emergence of smartphones are not many chat applications are present. When the chat service many are still presented by third parties. Not a third party also provides multi-platform services and combining various existing services.
One of the third-party mobile chat services are quite popular when it is eBuddy. Quoted from his official blog, eBuddy is a company in the Netherlands and made to offer instant messaging solutions in mobile services. This service was first rolled in 2003 under the name e-Messenger.
For users of Symbian-based smartphones, as many who download eBuddy chat service. This is certainly a viable alternative when online chat service not bring mobile features. Users also benefit from the multi-platform presented, among others, the Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Facebook Messenger and even within a single application.
EBuddy In addition, third-party application that provides multi-platform services to chat on mig33 and whom are Meebo.
Starting a BBM Chat Between Devices
Chat services then growing and not only provided by a third party. BlackBerry a vendor who popularized the chat service by presenting inter-device BlackBerry Messenger in 2006.
Quoted from page Crackberry, the BlackBerry when it was still called Research in Motion. Canadian company to bring fuel as one of the features in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1. BBM is not compatible with other instant messaging services. Of course, because the fuel has a different way of working.
BBM works on the BlackBerry Internet data packets or also known as the BlackBerry Internet Service. You can not use the fuel if you do not have a data plan for BB. In addition, identification of unknown users based Personal Identification Number or PIN. Well, this PIN is an identification that is on each device.
So what are the advantages of fuel? First, BBM allows direct chat or real time, be it an individual or a group. In addition, there are a number of features that indicates whether the message was sent or read by the recipient. Users can also personalize the fuel account.
But the message can not be delivered through BBM without knowing the PIN number. This is actually the hallmark of BlackBerry devices. Later, a new identification number PIN to communication than a phone number or email.
When the BlackBerry reached peak popularity, BBM is considered as one of the important features attached. Many BlackBerry users who do not want to replace the device, because it did not want to lose contact list on BBM.
At a later date, BBM service was enhanced. For example, to bring voice chat feature on the BlackBerry Messenger 7.0 update in December 2012.
BBM may be the reason for the user to maintain BlackBerry devices. Unfortunately, the reason also bad interference for the user to leave the fuel, and of course BlackBerry.
Quoted from the pages of the Guardian, the biggest disruption occurred in October 2011. With the BlackBerry network outages in some areas such as Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East, slowly but surely the number of users of fuel which in August 2011 was 70 million active users predicted reduced. Moreover, this service disruption override tens of millions of loyal users of fuel in the Middle East and Africa.
Compete with BBM iMessage
Recognized or not, fuel is one key to the success of BlackBerry sales. Because it's Apple called trying to follow the footsteps of successful fuel when released iMessage, service chat between iOS-based devices.
Quoted from page BGR, the new iMessage was introduced on June 6, 2011 in the event the World Wide Developers Conference 2011. This chat service introduced by the Apple iOS Division boss at the time, Scott Forstall, who says iMessage will appear in iOS 5 and OS X Mountain Lion.
Interestingly, iMessages based phone number and email. This course presents a broader platform with its presence on a PC. Moreover, a la Apple's instant messaging feature also has the ability to attract and not just send a text message.
iMessages are also able to send documents, photos, videos, contact information, through the Internet. Messages can also be done in a group.
With the rapid sales of iOS-based devices, iMessage users certainly increase. But the presence of iOS and Android operating systems go 'spawned' a number of other chat applications that actually allow for cross-platform chat.
Applications like WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, and We Chat, which is already showing its existence, will be vying to be present in each device as the main chat service for the users. In addition, Google also more advanced the Google Talk service and turn it into a Hangout. Hangout even expected as the main chat service for Android-based devices.
What kind of competition? Follow in the next episode.
The rapid development of communication technology with a smartphone presence. With the internet connectivity on the device, the function is no longer just a phone call or SMS. Mobile phones can now be used to explore the virtual world, and of course online chat.
In the early days of the emergence of smartphones are not many chat applications are present. When the chat service many are still presented by third parties. Not a third party also provides multi-platform services and combining various existing services.
One of the third-party mobile chat services are quite popular when it is eBuddy. Quoted from his official blog, eBuddy is a company in the Netherlands and made to offer instant messaging solutions in mobile services. This service was first rolled in 2003 under the name e-Messenger.
For users of Symbian-based smartphones, as many who download eBuddy chat service. This is certainly a viable alternative when online chat service not bring mobile features. Users also benefit from the multi-platform presented, among others, the Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Facebook Messenger and even within a single application.
EBuddy In addition, third-party application that provides multi-platform services to chat on mig33 and whom are Meebo.
Starting a BBM Chat Between Devices
Chat services then growing and not only provided by a third party. BlackBerry a vendor who popularized the chat service by presenting inter-device BlackBerry Messenger in 2006.
Quoted from page Crackberry, the BlackBerry when it was still called Research in Motion. Canadian company to bring fuel as one of the features in BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1. BBM is not compatible with other instant messaging services. Of course, because the fuel has a different way of working.
BBM works on the BlackBerry Internet data packets or also known as the BlackBerry Internet Service. You can not use the fuel if you do not have a data plan for BB. In addition, identification of unknown users based Personal Identification Number or PIN. Well, this PIN is an identification that is on each device.
So what are the advantages of fuel? First, BBM allows direct chat or real time, be it an individual or a group. In addition, there are a number of features that indicates whether the message was sent or read by the recipient. Users can also personalize the fuel account.
But the message can not be delivered through BBM without knowing the PIN number. This is actually the hallmark of BlackBerry devices. Later, a new identification number PIN to communication than a phone number or email.
When the BlackBerry reached peak popularity, BBM is considered as one of the important features attached. Many BlackBerry users who do not want to replace the device, because it did not want to lose contact list on BBM.
At a later date, BBM service was enhanced. For example, to bring voice chat feature on the BlackBerry Messenger 7.0 update in December 2012.
BBM may be the reason for the user to maintain BlackBerry devices. Unfortunately, the reason also bad interference for the user to leave the fuel, and of course BlackBerry.
Quoted from the pages of the Guardian, the biggest disruption occurred in October 2011. With the BlackBerry network outages in some areas such as Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East, slowly but surely the number of users of fuel which in August 2011 was 70 million active users predicted reduced. Moreover, this service disruption override tens of millions of loyal users of fuel in the Middle East and Africa.
Compete with BBM iMessage
Recognized or not, fuel is one key to the success of BlackBerry sales. Because it's Apple called trying to follow the footsteps of successful fuel when released iMessage, service chat between iOS-based devices.
Quoted from page BGR, the new iMessage was introduced on June 6, 2011 in the event the World Wide Developers Conference 2011. This chat service introduced by the Apple iOS Division boss at the time, Scott Forstall, who says iMessage will appear in iOS 5 and OS X Mountain Lion.
Interestingly, iMessages based phone number and email. This course presents a broader platform with its presence on a PC. Moreover, a la Apple's instant messaging feature also has the ability to attract and not just send a text message.
iMessages are also able to send documents, photos, videos, contact information, through the Internet. Messages can also be done in a group.
With the rapid sales of iOS-based devices, iMessage users certainly increase. But the presence of iOS and Android operating systems go 'spawned' a number of other chat applications that actually allow for cross-platform chat.
Applications like WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, and We Chat, which is already showing its existence, will be vying to be present in each device as the main chat service for the users. In addition, Google also more advanced the Google Talk service and turn it into a Hangout. Hangout even expected as the main chat service for Android-based devices.
What kind of competition? Follow in the next episode.
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