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WhatsApp sunsets mobile platforms, focusing on iOS and Android

on Mar 1, 2016 | 0 comments

By Doug Zanger

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is dropping several mobile platforms and focusing its attention on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, according to a blog post from the company late last week.

Seven year-old WhatsApp noted that at their launch in 2009, around 70 per cent of smartphones were run on BlackBerry and Nokia operating systems, while only 25 per cent ran on systems created by Apple, Google and Microsoft. Today, the latter own about 99.5 per cent of sales today.

By the end of 2016, the company will be ceasing support for: BlackBerry, including BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian Read full story ›

Source: The Drum