BBM for Android and iPhone will not be released this week
by Volker Weber
We attempted to address the problems caused by the unreleased version throughout the day on Saturday, but as active users of the unreleased app neared a million - and accelerated - it became clear that the only way to address the issue was to pause the rollout for both Android and iPhone.
Let me get this straight. There was an old version causing problems. As people were waiting for BlackBerry to release the new version, more people used the old version. So you let them wait a little more. And yet more people started sharing the old version instead of being able to use the new version you did not release.
Nobody would have been able to see that coming, right?
Comments
Release management is a miracle.
"Let me get this straight." Straight as a streak of lightning. There are other reasons which you've missed.
Can you say "Test/Debug" code?
My assumption is that you test and debug code before announcing its availability. If you are still testing and debugging after announcing a launch, that would be an additional problem.
You assume correctly. But that "old" version was not something we officially released. When you have an official one that is getting swamped by test/debug data from something that should never have been in the wild, then there is a problem.
Personally I'd like to string up whoever released it. It only harms the Users and BlackBerry.
Yes, absolutely. And also the Crackberrys who promote it. My thinking is that these people would drop their pre-release as soon as they get something with a higher version number.
I would imagine that proper development would allow them to detect which version client is trying to login and disable the "non-official" version.
But then, "proper development" is the key phrase here.
Recent comments
Julius Rummich on Wir stellen ein Licht ins Fenster at 19:38
Rafael Mayoral on Lenovo USI Pen für Chromebooks at 19:30
August Quint on Corona-Impfung :: Totales Organisationsversagen in Hessen at 13:05
Kai Nehm on Creative use of TikTok at 13:55
Thomas Cloer on Stuff that works :: Anker Nano Ladegerät at 12:01
Volker Weber on AirPods Max :: iFixit Teardown at 10:24
Kai Nehm on Messengers by the numbers at 09:31
Ragnar Schierholz on AirPods Max :: iFixit Teardown at 20:50
Volker Weber on AirPods Max :: iFixit Teardown at 19:09
Ian Bradbury on AirPods Max :: iFixit Teardown at 17:30
Oliver Regelmann on DNS over TLS mit Digitale Gesellschaft Schweiz als Provider at 08:31
Markus Mews on Auf dem Fenster schreiben :: Wie man Windows 10 mit einem Stift nutzt at 16:42
Markus Mews on Auf dem Fenster schreiben :: Wie man Windows 10 mit einem Stift nutzt at 16:37
August Quint on Corona-Impfung :: Totales Organisationsversagen in Hessen at 15:34
Volker Weber on Stuff that works :: Anker Nano Ladegerät at 20:08
Axel Borschbach on Stuff that works :: Anker Nano Ladegerät at 19:53
Volker Weber on Corona-Impfung :: Totales Organisationsversagen in Hessen at 17:51
August Quint on Corona-Impfung :: Totales Organisationsversagen in Hessen at 15:46
Markus Mews on Auf dem Fenster schreiben :: Wie man Windows 10 mit einem Stift nutzt at 13:19
Stephan Bohr on Messengers by the numbers at 12:42
Yves Menge on Messengers by the numbers at 12:26
Jochen Kattoll on Auf dem Fenster schreiben :: Wie man Windows 10 mit einem Stift nutzt at 11:25
Harald Reisinger on Creative use of TikTok at 13:13
Fabian Müller-Klug on Was 12-Jährige wirklich wollen at 22:59
Volker Weber on Moving from WhatsApp to Signal at 21:54
