{"id":86701,"date":"2016-03-23T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=86701"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:02:21","slug":"facebook-says-goodbye-to-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-says-goodbye-to-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook plans to say goodbye to numerous devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> isn\u2019t the only popular application that has decided to abandon the <strong>BlackBerry<\/strong> ecosystem \u2013 <strong>Facebook<\/strong> has decided to call it a day too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook and Messenger<\/strong> will both cease to exist on <strong>BlackBerry operating systems<\/strong>, including the <strong>BB10<\/strong> by the <strong>end of 2016<\/strong>. This is a bit of a blow for BlackBerry users around the world, who have already taken to Twitter in a global campaign to beg <strong>Facebook <\/strong>to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-86703\" title=\"spotify-blackberry\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/spotify-blackberry-568x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/spotify-blackberry-568x377.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/spotify-blackberry-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/spotify-blackberry-256x170.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/spotify-blackberry.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Initially, WhatsApp\u2019s decision to leave BlackBerry was because <strong>99.5% <\/strong>of its registered users were chatting on Android, iOS and Windows operating systems, therefore it seemed appropriate and natural to focus its efforts on the more popular platforms (and it doesn\u2019t take a genius to work out that BlackBerry didn&#8217;t quite make the team).<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as though <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> is owned by <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, this decision may come as no surprise. However, you can&#8217;t help but ask the question: Has this decision just robbed <strong>BlackBerry<\/strong> of a bright future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that WhatsApp isn\u2019t the only popular application that has decided to abandon the BlackBerry ecosystem \u2013 Facebook has decided to call it a day too. Facebook and Messenger will both cease to exist on BlackBerry operating systems, including the BB10 by the end of 2016. This is a bit of a blow for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-says-goodbye-to-blackberry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook plans to say goodbye to numerous devices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":86702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-86701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329183,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86701\/revisions\/329183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86701"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=86701"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=86701"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=86701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}