At the end of the year, WhatsApp will cease to function in almost all BlackBerry and Nokia devices, Windows Phone and Android already old.
Not even the latest BlackBerry are safe. WhatsApp will let you work on all equipment least one: Priv
In a post published on the application of the blog, those responsible for WhatsApp, remember that when created – seven years – the world. mobile phones “was very different than it is today. the Apple App Store, for example, has been around for a few months. About 70% of smartphones sold at the time, had operating systems developed by BlackBerry and Nokia.”
a very different from the current scenario where. “mobile operating system created by Google, Apple and Microsoft – totaling now about 99.5% of current sales”
it is because WhatsApp wants to “look at the future “and develop the application with new features that have to leave some operating systems behind. At issue are the phones and smartphones with the BlackBerry operating systems (including BlackBerry 10), Nokia S40, Symbian S60, Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1. Equipment, mostly more than five years. Some with seven.
The company explains that “as much as these devices have made an important part of our history, they do not have the necessary capacity so that we can expand the capabilities of our application in the future.”
Finally, the statement of WhatsApp leaves a friendly advice: “if you use one of these equipment, we recommend that you replace with an Android device, Apple or Windows latest Phone before the end of 2016 in order to continue using WhatsApp. “
No comments:
Post a Comment