About a month after the first attempt failed, BlackBerry is planning on trying once again to get BBM for iOS and BBM for Android available for users of those two platforms, on Monday, BlackBerry crowed about the 1.1 million Android users that installed an unreleased version of the app back in September. It was that unofficial version, along with a number of bogus BBM apps put up in the Google Play Store, that made BlackBerry's task too difficult to complete at the time... Meanwhile, more than 1 million Apple iPhone users have sideloaded BBM on their phone.
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/BBM-for-Android-and-BBM-for-iOS-to-be-released-today_id48520
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/BBM-for-Android-and-BBM-for-iOS-to-be-released-today_id48520