WhatsApp versus BBM

Another interesting Google Trends chart (and again, this isn’t really reliable data): WhatsApp is about to pass BBM in global search volume. 

Hardly surprising, given that Blackberry sales are collapsing and iPhone and Android are exploding. And WhatsApp has been camped out at the top of the ‘top downloads’ charts on both platforms for months. Great execution, and just proves you can succeed with a silly name…