Well here comes a sad news for the WhatsApp users of a few of the BlackBerry and Nokia users. The WatsApp team waited till Friday night to toss this news in the air after celebrating its seventh anniversary last week. The app is soon going to be shut on a few BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those companies’ operating systems.
The company has stated that “by the end of 2016” it is going to abandon BB’s OS – 10, Nokia S40 and Symbian S60, Android 2.1 Éclair and 2.2 Froyo as well as Windows Phone 7.1. More importantly, the global market share these platforms is negligible at this point, so it is expected not to affect many users.
BlackBerry has recently released an Android Phone called the Priv in the year 2015, and it plans to release on more that is going to run on Google’s OS. WhatsApp is ready not to shut its services for these phones.
It was a different time, when all the app developers had to design in a manner that best suits the BlackBerry and Nokia phones but now it is high time not only for the companies but also for the users. The Facebook-owned Whatsapp has to stop providing them service because, these platforms "don't offer the kind of capabilities [they] need to expand [their] app's features in the future."
It is possible that this news has come as a bit of a shock for a minority of people but this decision has also brought forward the fact that the company had been providing service for so long to these operating systems. This has also grown faith over the company by many users today who are assured that this company will remain faithful to them for a very long time.
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