{"id":659676,"date":"2013-05-22T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=576859"},"modified":"2013-05-22T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T19:20:39","slug":"lazaridis-iphone-android-users-will-abandon-imessage-and-whatsapp-for-bbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659676","title":{"rendered":"Lazaridis: iPhone, Android users will abandon iMessage and WhatsApp for BBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/blackberry-bbm-iphone-android-expectations\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/mike-lazaridis-rim110713112247.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"BlackBerry BBM iPhone Android \" title=\"BlackBerry BBM iPhone Android \" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>BlackBerry announced earlier this month that its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/bbm\">BlackBerry Messenger<\/a> service will be coming to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> smartphones and the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> in the coming months. The company was <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/14\/blackberry-strategy-analysis-bbm-q5\/\">initially criticized for once again being late to the game<\/a>, with services like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp having taken over the mobile messaging market. BlackBerry cofounder and former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is optimistic about BBM&#8217;s future, however. The former executive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-05-21\/blackberry-founder-says-iphone-users-will-embrace-messaging-app.html\">told <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> that he believes iPhone and Android users will be quick to embrace the once popular service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/22\/blackberry-bbm-iphone-android-expectations\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/xiGBrgV_wjk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry announced earlier this month that its BlackBerry Messenger service will be coming to Android smartphones and the iPhone in the coming months. The company was initially criticized for once again being late to the game, with services like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp having taken over the mobile messaging market. BlackBerry cofounder and former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}