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He has three devices, all hand-me-downs from family members. Some, like Instagram, last, others disappear into thin air.'Д«ennett, a 13-year-old at Oasis, is typical of this dispersed smartphone culture. All of these apps plug into your phone book and your photo library. 'The smartphone itself has become the platform. 'It's a much more complex, multi-faceted environment,' says Benedict Evans, a digital media specialist at Enders. Among 16- to 24-year-olds, 60% use Facebook everyday, but 46% use alternatives. Nearly 80% of young smartphone owners regularly use a social networking application, says the research firm Enders Analysis, but two-thirds use more than one. Every year a new one comes out,' says Moore. I'm on WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, Kik. Yet for the young people around the karting track, no single alternative with the same viral power, the ability to connect a generation on one platform, has replaced BBM.

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Mention the words stop and search around here, and you immediately have a room full of angry young men.' 'I know a lot of people who were out rioting. 'The social networking wasn't the reason,' he says. He dismisses the notion that the BBM curfew urged by some MPs would have stopped the looting. Moore mainly communicates on an iPad now. He manages the karting track at Oasis youth club in Stockwell, south London, an area with some of the highest levels of crime and economic deprivation in Britain.

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'We could see on our BlackBerry messages where the rioters were going next TV news would catch up four hours later,' said Jean-Pierre Moore, 28. Yet only three years ago, BBM was so powerful it was credited with starting a revolution in Egypt and at the time of the London riots, it was a more urgent source of news than the television screen.

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Like BBM, all of these services are free for any phone with an internet connection. Photos uploaded to Instagram trigger a wave of comments and Snapchat's pictures, which self-delete after 10 seconds, have opened a world of other possibilities. Messaging is moving from verbal to visual. Even the contacts and calendar sharing that BBM made possible on BlackBerry handsets have not migrated to the Apple and Android versions. And the stickers (a more sophisticated version of the smiley face) adored by kids the world over are also unforgivably absent. There is no video sharing, as on iMessage. Unlike Path, it does not do location sharing. Other services expose BBM's limitations: unlike Skype and Viber, it does not yet offer video or voice calls. 'WhatsApp has captured the reason why young people would use a BlackBerry.'Д«BM claims 80 million monthly users after its upgrade, but WhatsApp has 300 million. 'The move to bring BlackBerry to the iPhone is four or five years too late,' says James Gooderson, an 18-year-old classical civilisation student at Nottingham University who blogs on technology. But despite the initial interest, many believe BBM's wider release will do little to save the service. Despite the competition, the response has been overwhelming, with an announcement that there have been more than 20m downloads. In an attempt to retain its following, BBM was last week released on Android and Apple phones.

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Dozens of alternatives have sprung up to take its place, from Facebook and Apple's own-brand instant messaging applications to independent startups such as WhatsApp and Kik (which also hails from Canada).ДЇree to download and use (although WhatsApp costs $1 a year after the first year), they use the internet to swap text messages, pictures, voice clips, 'stickers', and even videos in WhatsApp's case, between most types of phones. Six years later, in the summer of 2011, as violence engulfed London and spread to Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool and Manchester, so effective was BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) at mobilising the rioters that politicians called for the service to be temporarily shut down.Д«ut two years later, it is the users themselves who are pulling the plug.ДЄs demand for BlackBerry handsets fades, the once noisy BBM grapevine is falling silent.

While the iPhone was still a gleam in Steve Jobs' eye, BlackBerry's innovations ensured its smartphone joined maple syrup on the list of Canada's biggest exports. Back in 2005, when BlackBerry brought instant messaging to the mobile phone, the company was just entering its boom times.

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