Comments on: Why Did RIM Pull Viral Messenger App Kik from App World?

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:02:00 +0000

this post didn’t answer the reason why…i’m still in the dark after having read this…I think it was because it was the 1st (afaik) app that allowed for cross-platform with the read and delivered notifications..and RIM panicked. But I don’t know why RIM won’t reallow it..maybe it’s because they have a lawsuit against KIK (i believe i read that they have one). Cuz, now, there are apps like LiveProfile and PingChat! that have both of those features and they havent’ been banned by Rim.

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More on RIM Shutting Down the Kik Messenger Service | BlackBerry Cool — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:56:40 +0000

[...] like this was the concern, they would let Kik fix the issue rather than take their signing keys.When we first wrote about this story, we pointed to the fact that Kik uses an aggressive contact scraping method which has also helped [...]

By: Diesel2

Diesel2 — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:16:00 +0000

I had thought it was KIK that was having issues, not RIM.

By: Will Robertson

Will Robertson — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:18:00 +0000

I’m willing to bet that new downloads were stopped because Kik was causing problems to RIM’s push infrastructure. Before downloads were halted, there were many periods of downtime for Kik users on BBs. This is probably a temporary ban until RIM fixes some scalability issues on their end for Kik to use the push services without running into more problems.

By: rezn

rezn — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:15:00 +0000

This is the best article I’ve read on the Kik situation. Kudos guys. And really it’s only fair to shine some light on them in a positive way. They’ve really upped popularity and that can be a huge strain on servers. People are tweeting malicious things without giving the company a chance to explain. We still see the same thing for SocialScope and other popular apps. It’s no wonder issimo keeps their app under lock & key because this is how people behave.