News WhatsApp to end support to BlackBerry OS, Nokia Symbian platforms

[Technoglitch]

The Facebook-owned company has over a billion users globally. A major chunk of them are from emerging markets such as India.

“When we started WhatsApp in 2009, people’s use of mobile devices looked very different from today. The Apple App Store was only a few months old. About 70% of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia,” WhatsApp said in a blog post.

It said mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft, which account for 99.5% of sales today, were less than 25% of mobile devices sold at the time.

“As we look ahead to our next seven years, we want to focus our efforts on the mobile platforms the vast majority of people use. So, by the end of 2016, we will be ending support for WhatsApp Messenger on BlackBerry (including BlackBerry 10), Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1, Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1,” it said.

WhatsApp to end support to BlackBerry OS, Nokia Symbian platforms - Livemint

 

[Aviral Sangal]

By ending support do they mean no more development or will the apps stop working? Although I am not impacted.

 

[DashMajor]

Very bad news for BB and Nokia users.

 

[Technoglitch]

By ending support do they mean no more development or will the apps stop working? Although I am not impacted.

No more updates to fix the bug.

 

[scorpionking76]

Bad news for BB and symbian users

 

[Technoglitch]

Bad news for BB and symbian users

Both the users are dwindling now and it is an headache to roll out updates or patches to outdated platform

 

[scorpionking76]

Yeah. Now Android users are increasing.

 

[Aviral Sangal]

Probably this decision is taken because they isn't much scope of adding new features which have been added on Android or ios

 

[IndianMascot]

Many more apps have started withdrawing from BB.

 

[Technoglitch]

BB is of the past.