Why not WhatsApp app platform as Messenger – iculture

Facebook earlier this week made an app platform Messenger. Developers can create applications that are closely linked to the Messenger app, so your example POISON images and music to share chat via special apps. In the meantime, however, there is little change in WhatsApp, other chat app from Facebook. Why are all these new features are not added here? WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton tried to explain during Facebook’s F8 developer conference.

Brian Acton spoke with David Marcus of the Messenger team and Mike Krieger Instagram all adjustments and innovations. In addition, it quickly went about tackling WhatsApp and why the app has not received the new features. A summary of ReadWrite describes his reaction as follows:

you imagine how it is to use all the robust, dynamic mobile apps of the moment. Included with pictures, animated poison, music and videos as possible in the Messenger app. And try to for now even imagine how this would be a slow Edge network in 1995.

That is the patience-demanding scenario Acton imagines continuously, and it is one of the principles behind his work by WhatsApp.

No advertising, games and gimmicks

WhatsApp does not focus on fast new features, but will just slowly build basic functionality. This approach ensures that full WhatsApp not end up with data-hungry extras which the app can be slow and awkward on old phones and slow data networks. A philosophy that lies behind some time WhatsApp. Last year we read that WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has hung a note on his desk that read “no ads, no games, no gimmicks.”

Competition

This targeted approach WhatsApp users at which sometimes creates frustration. The app had long example, no desktop version, which by now to download for Android and Windows Phone users. In the meantime, try apps like Telegram users to nibble away at WhatsApp by setting slightly faster functions available. That WhatsApp’s strong position in the market, however, not changed. According to a survey from March 2015 has WhatsApp currently 9.5 million Dutch users.