One more time WhatsApp made a announcement that makes you nervous to millions of their users, they would withdraw support to some devices. It would be the older versions of Windows, Android and Apple’s iOS.
In a statement on its official blog, announced that at the end of this year it would stop working on phones that will work with the following operating systems: Android 2.1 and Android 2.2, Windows Phone 7, and iPhone 3GS/iOS 6.
After serving seven years, WhatsApp decides to take a step forward and this means leaving a good amount of users in search of to improve their service. “Looking to the future, we want to focus our efforts on the mobile platforms that the vast majority use”, explained the messaging service on his blog.
“anniversaries help us to reflect. When we started WhatsApp in 2009, mobile phones were totally different from those of today. The Apple App store had a few months of having been launched, and around 70 percent of the smartphones on sale were operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia. The mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft, who now account for 99.5 per cent of sales, representing at least 25 per cent of sales in that time,” says the text on the website of the messaging application.
Earlier WhatsApp announced that it would no longer work on devices that work with the operating systems of BlackBerry and Blackberry 10 in Nokia S40 and Symbian S60, from the middle of next year.
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