The rumor mill has hit once again, according to WSJ BlackBerry is “considering” spinning off BBM into a separate individual company. While BBM could definitely be the leader in the cross-platform messaging app world I would like for it to stick with BlackBerry and not become BBM Inc. Patents and BBM are BlackBerry’s most valuable assets, keeping everything intact instead of breaking the company into pieces would be ideal but may not be in the plans of potential buyers.
According to WSJ this has been in the “plans for years”:
Many of these planned offerings have been in progress internally for years. A working cross-platform BBM service had been operable and ready to launch as far back as three years ago, according to people close to the company, before executives decided not to proceed. A desktop version of BBM had also been running internally years ago, according to this person, but executives chose not to bring that offering to the public either.
What do you all think of BBM possibly becoming BBM Inc?
Source: BerryReview