WhatsApp crashes in Blackberry at the end of 2016
The service WhatsApp messages will stop working on Blackberry devices at the end of 2016. The announcement was made at blog brand justifying the decision with the lack of capacity of this equipment.
10:05 • Business
by Alexandra Noronha – Business Journal
The application of WhatsApp messages, owned by Facebook, will cease to function in Blackberry devices by the end of 2016.
in a post on his blog, the messaging service celebrated its seventh anniversary and wanted to “reflect on the past. When we started WhatsApp in 2009, the way people used smartphones was quite different than it is today, “said the same source.
WhatsApp recalled that the Apple App Store at that time, existed for only a few months and” that about 70% of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems developed by Blackberry and Nokia. “
That changed and the application made the decision to leave not only the BlackBerry devices, but Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1 and Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1.
WhatsApp considers that these smart phones “do not have the required capacity so that we can expand the capabilities of our application in the future.”
who uses these devices, WhatsApp recommends that replace them with a “Android, Apple or Windows most current phone before the end of 2016, so you can continue to use WhatsApp. “
the application was a record one billion active users, according announced Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, who bought WhatsApp two years ago.
The application was created by two emigrants, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, in 2009, cost EUR 19 billion (EUR 17.4 billion) to Facebook. Since its founding, it was exchanged 42 billion messages and 1,600 million photos a day.
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