WhatsApp comes to desk top web browsers

trinidadone

WhatsApp, the popular smartphone messaging service is reported in the Belfast telegraph to be made available to web browsers for the first time.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/technology-gadgets/whatsapp-comes-to-desktop-web-browsers-30927232.html

WhatsApp has 700 million users sending 30 billion messages a day.

Stoke

There goes productivity

ballyblack

On Windows but not Apple Macs

another reason to avoid Apple

[Deleted User]

Oh dear lord, this is a disaster for productivity!

Why wouldn't this work on Macs? It's web based. It was very very easy (and oddly clever) to set it up. Scanning the QR code from within the Whatsapp app magically loaded my profile onto the site

ballyblack

Maybe greedy Apple hasn't worked out a way to charge its customers like they do for most things?
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wiogs

ballyblack wrote: »

On Windows but not Apple Macs

another reason to avoid Apple

or another reason to use Apple:D

InsideInsurance

ballyblack wrote: »

On Windows but not Apple Macs

another reason to avoid Apple

Works on Apple Macs just fine I'm afraid.

The desktop version requires you to have a mobile version though and the iOS version doesnt support this. So if you have an Apple PC but an Android mobile it will work. If you have a Windows PC but an iPhone it wont work

RumRat

I suppose they were desperate to get this on the desktop as they were losing some ground to Viber, which, IMO, is much better than WhatsApp and has worked brilliantly on the desktop for a long time... -

ballyblack

I agree. Also from VIBER phone/desktop you can make free internet phone calls. But not from 'Whats App'

Ed-P

It's kind of like MSN instant messaging has come full circle; people used instant messaging services, switched to mobile services, now they're switching back to desktop.

Marktheshark

Nagware, never leaves you alone, this update, service expired.
Not worth the hassle.