The birth saga BlackBerry Messenger (BBM)

WATERLOO - What do you imagine when you hear the word BlackBerry Messenger ( BBM ) ? . In addition to the story about the ins and outs of the application to be used on the Android and iOS platforms , also can not be denied about fame social chat application that is loved by 60 million users worldwide .

But have never thought in mind about the real mastermind behind the success of the application of the so-called fuel ? He is Garry Klassen and here hikayatnya with BlackBerry Messenger .

" Not everyone in the company agrees with fellow instant messaging application platform , " Garry glance behind her memory . He said , all that happens when the idea first emerged BlackBerry Messenger is not as easy as sending a message via BBM as it is now . Many skeptics who do not believe the idea would be amazing .

But a few words from him to convince companies to entrust this project to Garry Klassen , " This will be the first in the mobile device , and only in mobile devices , "

Afterwards , BlackBerry Messenger project started running in 2005 with a small team , which brought together even between members of one another by accident .

One of the team members are students from Mississauga who was experimenting with instant - messaging application and send it to his own company Research In Motion . As a result he was drafted into the team BBM .

BBM team have also trained to fight for the instant messaging project . Garry says , he and his team had to run away from meeting occasionally for BBM project . Like the process as something that would be great later on , workmanship fuel does not run smoothly .

Team faced several failures and mistakes in the beginning . Moreover , the pressure felt by Garry cs many times because they have to compete with MSN and AOL Instant Messenger that was popular that time .

" We tested a lot of things that ultimately failed . But from the mistakes that resulted in new innovations are more important , " the story of Garry Therecord as quoted on Monday ( 09/03/2013 ) .

One of the teams is an indicator diperdebatka by the letters D and R that indicates the message has been delivered and read by the recipient . Which turned out to be one of the important parts in the application of fuel . According to Garry , it's very important indicator for the user .

" It can cause stress when you look online , but it is not , " said the bespectacled man . But ultimately up to now , the BlackBerry Messenger application users touch the figure of 60 million users worldwide . Minutiae of a small team who turns into a monster .

Garry Klassen , he is not like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , the creator of Twitter Jack Dorsey , the founder of social networking sites or for Rp1 trillion Tumblr David Karp who has a background of information technology education .

Geology graduates
Garry is a graduate of University of Waterloo majoring in Geology in 1992 that never went into the cave to look for gold and worked in the oil fields . Garry a Geology graduate who studied information technology fully .

" Now , when the fuel has become a large , growing number of people who worked on the team that used to fuel only a few people . BB10 Even now this team is a combination of people who are in different countries , " said Garry .

But at the end of it all , Garry gives interesting answers to the question : whether Garry Klassen never expected and imagined fuel will grow as it is today ?

And he replied , " I never thought it would be this big , but when you have a dream , you have hope , and you are doing what is planned , anything can happen , "

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