U.S.-based WhatsApp and Canada’s Kik Interactive are two of five major “cross-platform” messaging services that have built up big followings and which are also being tipped as the next big takeover targets for the likes of Facebook and Yahoo. You can use these on any device even if you can’t afford an iPhone,” said 14-year-old Euan McPhillips, a schoolboy from Gerrards Cross, just north of London. “I use WhatsApp and Kik with all my friends and family. The phone that once so dominated the UK youth market that its messaging service BBM was even blamed for helping to connect young rioters who fought police and wrecked shops in London and other cities in 2011, has now lost its cool.īlackBerry has been usurped by Apple and Android-run phones, and BBM has been eclipsed by the emergence of free messaging apps that work across a range of devices.
A Blackberry logo is seen through a cracked box in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, September 24, 2013.
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