Remember that whole RIM vs. Kik Messenger quarrel from last week? At the time, RIM wasn’t very talkative about the matter, instead giving very vague statements saying simply that “Kik was doing some questionable things”. Well the cat has now come out of the bag — kind of. RIM has come forward with an official statement. Unfortunately, it is just as vague as their previous stamtent —

RIM became aware of a number of issues and customer concerns regarding the Kik app and service. Following discussions with Kik, the app was removed from BlackBerry App World on November 12. Upon further investigation, RIM concluded that Kik had breached contractual obligations. Based on the broad scope and seriousness of the issues and concerns, RIM terminated its agreements with Kik and withdrew RIM’s support for Kik’s service.

Seeing as how no other app or developer has really garnered this kind of action before, whatever Kik was doing with their app must have been pretty bad for RIM to sever all ties. Then again, with as many security concerns that crop up day after day, taking extreme measures to protect users and users’ data is certainly a valid concern.

Any Kik users have anything they want to say?

Via: BerryReview