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Re:BBM for Android and iPhone Update by ovoxo on Saturday September 21, 2013 @10:10PM (#6425500)
Not sure why you think there's more to the story. It's extremely common for "unreleased" versions of various apps/services to have bottlenecks that the production-ready versions would not. That's typically why they're "unreleased".
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Re:BBM for Android and iPhone Update by macspoofing on Saturday September 21, 2013 @10:23PM (#6425542)
Maybe because Blackberry just halted a worldwide rollout of their Android AND iPhone BBM product without saying why?

If this isn't a service-overload issue, I'm having a hard time imagining what kind of problems this unreleased Android version could have caused.

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Re:BBM for Android and iPhone Update by ovoxo on Saturday September 21, 2013 @10:42PM (#6425578)
They themselves said "..this unreleased version caused issues". That could be referring to anything - including service-overload issues but I don't know why that would be that surprising.

This is exactly why companies like to have tight control of the roll-out of new products. They want to find these types of bottle-necks and glitches in rather controlled environments.

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Re:BBM for Android and iPhone Update by untog on Sunday September 22, 2013 @06:26AM (#6426382)
worldwide rollout

But there was no such rollout. An unreleased version leaked.

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