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12-01-2010, 09:46 AM
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12-01-2010, 09:59 AM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
Don't have to worry about using that anymore.
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12-01-2010, 11:58 AM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
Guess I can delete it now... :(
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12-01-2010, 12:03 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
I'd like to know the basis for their lawsuit. First they allowed it in the App Store, then yanked it. Doesn't it have to go thru some sort of review before it can be put in the App Store?
What's different between Kik and Pingchat and other similar multi-platform applications?
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12-01-2010, 12:07 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
WhatsApp is better anyway, IMO.
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12-01-2010, 12:08 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
I'm thinking (since the head of Kik was a former RIM employee, and he might have even been on the BBMessenger development team -- I can't recall exactly, so I don't want to impugn him), that there must have been some proprietary piece of a RIM patent used in Kik for the push delivery or instant communication Kik was good at.
But, I really don't know. All that is guessing and putting together little puzzle pieces I have read here and there.
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12-01-2010, 12:09 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
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WhatsApp is better anyway, IMO.
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That's one I haven't tried out. Thanks.
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12-02-2010, 08:51 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
why not sue, msn messenger, aol, im, icq, and the other 50000 messengers?
i dont get companys some time. also if rim wins this, does it mean they own im?
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12-03-2010, 01:57 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
I guess we have ping chat
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12-03-2010, 02:52 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
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why not sue, msn messenger, aol, im, icq, and the other 50000 messengers?
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Because none of them violated a non-disclosure agreement with RIM and/or used proprietary RIM code in their IM protocols.
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also if rim wins this, does it mean they own im?
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No.
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12-03-2010, 02:53 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
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I guess we have ping chat
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And WhatsApp, my personal preference.
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12-03-2010, 06:51 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
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Because none of them violated a non-disclosure agreement with RIM and/or used proprietary RIM code in their IM protocols.
No.
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ah i didn't know that!
thanks for the info
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12-06-2010, 11:57 AM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
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And WhatsApp, my personal preference.
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For now, based on others I have Whats App installed
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Re: RIM suing Kik
To add to it, they have supposedly been kicked out of the Accelerator Center. I can almost guarantee this company is done.
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12-31-2010, 10:53 PM
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Re: RIM suing Kik
Wonder if anything more will come from this.
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