BlackBerry to turn BBM secure-messaging system into subscription service
This would have been brilliant 10 years ago. If BBM was open to non-blackberries, it could have killed WhatsApp before it began. It&#x27;s weird to think of how popular Blackberries &amp; BBM was back in the day. I was in high school in 2007, and it was  cool to have a Blackberry. BBM was how people communicated with their crushes. If Blackberry had the vision, they could have preempted much of the current craze for social messaging.<p>Of course, hindsight is 20&#x2F;20, and it&#x27;s entirely possible that opening BBM up would have radically cannibalized Blackberry sales.<p>The article&#x27;s comparison to Twilio is interesting. Twilio&#x27;s market cap is 2.64B [1], while Blackberry&#x27;s is 3.84B [2]. I&#x27;d bet heavily that Twilio overtakes Blackberry soon.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;TWLO&#x2F;market_cap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;TWLO&#x2F;market_cap</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;BBRY&#x2F;market_cap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;BBRY&#x2F;market_cap</a>