• WashedOver@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    BBM was the jam back in the days before iPhone. If you wanted to be in on the group chats you needed a blackberry. In the last little bit they opened it up to more devices but the gig was up.

    I still miss their icons.

    • TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com
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      11 months ago

      They were never popular over here outside of business users, I always liked the tiny red LED. Sure, I can make the flag on my iPhone blink on new messages, but it’s not the same

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        11 months ago

        Yes the light was the best. Some of the early android devices tried to carry on with this practice but screen time attention I suspect won the day

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          11 months ago

          But Android phones still have multicolor notification led. In fact it blows my mind that iPhones don’t, I wouldn’t even consider a phone without it anymore.