WhatsApp Won’t Work on Some iPhones, Android, Windows Phones By 2018
NEWS DESK: WhatsApp will stop working on a selection of smartphones and mobile platforms in the new year, reported The Independent . From 1 January 2018, the messenger service won’t be available on any handsets running Windows Phone 8.0 (or older versions of the operating system), BlackBerry OS or BlackBerry 10. The company made the announcement in an update to a blog post that was originally published in February 2016. “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 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia,” it reads. “Mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft – which account for 99.5 percent of sales today – were on less than 25 percent of mobile devices sold at the time.” The platforms that are being cut are unpopular, and have been for some time. The company ended support for Nokia...