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Maybe because Blackberry just halted a worldwide rollout of their Android AND iPhone BBM product without saying why?

If this isn't a service-overload issue, I'm having a hard time imagining what kind of problems this unreleased Android version could have caused.

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They themselves said "..this unreleased version caused issues". That could be referring to anything - including service-overload issues but I don't know why that would be that surprising.

This is exactly why companies like to have tight control of the roll-out of new products. They want to find these types of bottle-necks and glitches in rather controlled environments.

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But there was no such rollout. An unreleased version leaked.

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