Kik Messenger is fantastic. It’s too bad RIM doesn’t want to work with them to make the messaging app tri-platform, but the iPhone and Android versions both still work fine. The latest update (4.0) adds picture sharing, group chat and speed improvements. That’s pretty great for a free app. [iTunes via Mashable]
Kik, the got-very-popular-very-fast cross-platform messaging app, was booted from BlackBerry’s App World because of a breach of “contractual obligations,” presumably breaching an obligation not to drive people away from BBM, RIM’s own messaging platform which they hold near and dear to their hearts.
