There appears to be an ongoing app war between RIM’s Blackberry Messenger, BBM and a budding rival WatsApp Messenger. While BBM has remained users favourite app for exchanging free instant messages amongst a close user group on Blackberry device, WatsApp has come to slice the strong hold, perhaps threatening to push BBM to a seemingly uncomfortable corner.
Unlike BBM which operates in a closed user group, WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which also allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. It is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia.
This range of phones can all message each other because WhatsApp uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing. Another beauty of it is that it seamlessly connects to users who exchange contacts, automatically, without seeking PINs or authorizations.
Although this messaging platform is gaining ground among youths and school children, the grip BBM has on loyal users, seems to be even getting tighter. So when we sampled opinion of a number of users of both platforms and the war was interesting to witness. Hear them out!
Mr.Olaniyi Dare
WhatsApp is sensational.
I was introduced to it by a friend and since then, I fell in love with it. The platform has more smileys than BBM and it’s an app that can be used on any phone. You see, the catch is that whatsapp upgrades a new contact automatically and you don’t need to request to add someone up. You can add anybody once the person is on whatsapp. For me, BBM is too serious.
Miss Sopulu Amaechina
I prefer BBM because most people on the platform are on twitter and news get to twitter faster and by so doing pass on to BBM.
Mr. Awotoye Abayomi
WhatsApp is boring and does not express much maturity on users. Most of the people on BBM are serious people no matter their age and there is this air of responsibility that revolves around the platform. Most of my friends are on BBM and for me, that says it all.
Miss Eva Aja
I prefer BBM to whatsapp because it’s a nice way of communicating when one doesn’t have airtime on the phone. Whatsapp takes time in sending messages. In fact, more people use BBM than whatsapp.
Miss Vaughan Kemi
I am not a gadget freak though, but whatsapp is more like it to me. You know, it works on any phone as long as one has access to the internet. Whatsapp gives everyone on your contact extra means of communicating with you because not only can you chat, you can also call the person since you have the person’s number.
BBM on the other hand has restricted users, it is strictly for people using Black berry phones. Whatsapp is an app you download but BBM is more like an added technology to the phone. These apps both perform the same function but whatsapp has an added advantage because of the number it shows or asks for before you can add up a contact. But bbm uses pin which cannot be used to call up somebody.
Mr. Jide Familugba
When something is meant to look like something, it can never be the same. Whatsapp was modeled after BBM and that tells you what an innovation BBM is. However I have also observed that most Blackberry users do also download whatsapp on their phones. To me, that’s an extra to a user. Yet, bbm is still an easier platform to send videos, music, pictures even as it attributes smiley’s, status, personal messages as well as it displays pictures.
Miss Aigbomian Obehi
For me whatsapp is a good innovation but I still prefer BBM because it’s more interesting. But the two apps have disadvantages. While BBM could sometimes, be annoying by the way people announce their every movement and anything in their lives, it is also very interesting to have.
In the same vein, whatsapp is innovative because it creates alternative for people who cannot afford a blackberry or do not like the device. On WhatsApp, even if you delete contact, the person still has your number. But if you ask me, BBM still has upper hand on User Interface experience.
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