The instant messaging service WhatsApp announced that it will stop working on a number of operating systems including Blackberry 10, Nokia Symbian S60 and Windows Phone 7.1.
the company said the decision is due to its strategy of focusing “on mobile platforms that most people use “.
The service, which belongs to Facebook, no longer available in the old systems from December 2016 .
Most operating systems will lose WhatsApp are not already installed on new phones or updated by their companies.
The exception is Blackberry 10 , launched in January 2013, which is still developed by Blackberry.
The “10″ is
Blackberry firm even said it planned a “10.3.4 version with greater security devices” by the end of the year.
However, this operating system has failed to capture the attention of users phone and currently holds a smaller band than 1% of the market.
When the company launched its smartphone with the Android system was speculation that BlackBerry 10 would fall into disfavor
But the firm was very clear:. “We will not abandon our loyal customers who have contributed to our success. ”
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The full list of systems that leave WhatsApp is as follows;
- Android 2.1 and Android 2.2
- Blackberry OS 7 and all previous to that model
“Although these mobile phone have been an important part of our history, do not offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand facets of our application in the future,” said WhatsApp on a blog.
the instant messaging service recalled that when he started work in 2009, “about 70% of the smartphones that were sold at that time had operating systems BlackBerry and Nokia”.
But today the systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft are 99.5% of sales.
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