in February last year, the creators of WhatsApp published a “black list” of operating systems that will be disconnected from the service from January 2017. It hit devices that are running Android 2.1 and Android 2.2, Windows Phone 7.1 and iOS 6 (or iPhone 3GS). In addition, since June 30, 2017 fall into this list of Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS.
This decision is due to the fact that legacy systems are not able to support the new features that the developers added to the messenger. While WhatsApp has decided to invest in the development of new versions for outdated smartphones are unprofitable. Experts note that this decision is due to the fact that in recent years has radically changed the situation on the market. In 2009, when WhatsApp was just beginning to win a place under the sun, about 70 percent of mobile devices sold with the operating system, BlackBerry and Nokia. Today, the flagships of the market were large corporations like Google, Apple and Microsoft, which accounted for more than 90 percent sold in the world of operating systems. The heads of WhatsApp, said : “Looking at our future 7 years, we want to focus on mobile platforms used by the vast majority of people.”
Recall That WhatsApp is a private free private commercial multiplatforming messenger with support for voice and video calls. His appearance has revolutionized the mobile market. The loss of cellular operators from the fact that users began to abandon the paid services and went over to free messages and calls WhatsApp, amounted to several dozen billion dollars in 2012 alone. In 2014, the messenger was bought by Facebook for $ 19 billion. As of February 2016, the number of WhatsApp users exceeded 1 billion people.
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