WhatsApp To End Support For BlackBerry, Nokia, and Other Older Operating Systems (whatsapp.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:13AM from the not-even-the-back-burner dept.

nerdyalien writes: While everybody is immersed in the Apple vs. FBI case, WhatsApp has posted a blog entry that could potentially alter the mobile landscape as we know it today. By the end of 2016, WhatsApp will no longer support many older mobile operating systems from BlackBerry, Nokia, Android and Windows Phone. Moving forward, WhatsApp will only support the latest and greatest iPhone, Android and Windows Phone platforms. With over 1 billion active users, and the backing of Facebook, is WhatsApp finally reducing the mobile landscape to a three-horse race ?

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Bigger than you think by Rinisari · 2016-02-29 03:30 · Score: 4, Interesting

WhatsApp's claim to fame originally was its ability to run on virtually anything, including the J2ME phones popular in the US and Europe in the mid-2000s. Those phones at least were still prevalent in many African and middle-eastern countries just a couple of years ago.
Have these markets also developed such that they are basically Android or iOS now?

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