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03-22-2016, 09:35 PM
Facebook ditches support for BlackBerry
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With 1.44 billion mobile monthly active users as of Dec. 2015 (https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/), Facebook is the most popular mobile app in the world.
Unfortunately for BlackBerry users, they won't be a part of this statistic come year-end, as Facebook will stop supporting the BlackBerry and BBOS platforms at the end of 2016.*
SEE ALSO: BlackBerry Priv is **w available on Verizon (http://mashable.com/2016/03/03/blackberry-priv-is-**w-available-on-verizon/)
The news comes less than a month after Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp an**unced it will stop supporting BlackBerry devices (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/whatsapp-blackberry-discontinued-2016/) by the end of the year.*
BlackBerry App Ecosystem lead Lou Gazzola an**unced the change in a blog post (http://blogs.blackberry.com/2016/03/great-apps-on-blackberry-a-strong-commitment-to-the-blackberry-developer-community/) last week, saying Facebook would discontinue support of their essential APIs for BlackBerry.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/blackberry-facebook-support-end/)
More about Blackberry 10 (http://mashable.com/category/blackberry-10/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Support (http://mashable.com/category/support/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Blackberry (http://mashable.com/category/blackberry/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/rH5HnhWqgi0
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With 1.44 billion mobile monthly active users as of Dec. 2015 (https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/), Facebook is the most popular mobile app in the world.
Unfortunately for BlackBerry users, they won't be a part of this statistic come year-end, as Facebook will stop supporting the BlackBerry and BBOS platforms at the end of 2016.*
SEE ALSO: BlackBerry Priv is **w available on Verizon (http://mashable.com/2016/03/03/blackberry-priv-is-**w-available-on-verizon/)
The news comes less than a month after Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp an**unced it will stop supporting BlackBerry devices (http://mashable.com/2016/02/28/whatsapp-blackberry-discontinued-2016/) by the end of the year.*
BlackBerry App Ecosystem lead Lou Gazzola an**unced the change in a blog post (http://blogs.blackberry.com/2016/03/great-apps-on-blackberry-a-strong-commitment-to-the-blackberry-developer-community/) last week, saying Facebook would discontinue support of their essential APIs for BlackBerry.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/22/blackberry-facebook-support-end/)
More about Blackberry 10 (http://mashable.com/category/blackberry-10/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Support (http://mashable.com/category/support/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Blackberry (http://mashable.com/category/blackberry/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/rH5HnhWqgi0