Blackberry IM chat system App

Interesting theory and observation. Thanks for pointing that out. I had not given a thought to that side of it.

As a consumer I wasn't aware that it would be so expensive for Blackberry to re-route their Blackberry Chat IMs to another system. Also, as a consumer I suppose I don't care too much about how it is done. I'm just frustrated with how many different IM services there are and am keen to use applications which bring them together.

To answer your question, nothing. I would not be prepared to pay a monthly fee for such a service. Why would I? I already pay a monthly fee for more SMS than I use each month. I also pay a number of monthly fees for Internet access over wifi, broadband, and mobile data plans. This is one of the reasons why I don't like paying so much for SMS. Also IM is better.

However, I would pay for apps which consolidate IM services. I would pay up to £40 for an app which enabled IM on my iPhone to talk to the Blackberry Chat IM users. This is where they could get their revenue from. Whether or not it's enough, I don't know. But I can't imagine it would cost that much to ling their current service with an existing Web based IM service. Having said that, I am just a consumer and user of iPhone and a fre IM services such as Skype, MSN, iChat, Whats App (whatever that uses?) and apps like Ping.

Additionally, I reckon more revenue would also come from the continued use and sales of Blackberry devises. A lot of users and businesses prefer them. If they were more useful, as in they could use the BB chat to IM iPhone users etc sales and Market share would benefit too. IMHO.