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icebraining on Jan 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp doesn't understand the web

Android and iOS have more than 95% market share of the smartphones market. Plenty of people access the web with feature phones. In fact, that's why Whatsapp has clients for Nokia S60 and S40.

Kurtz79 on Jan 22, 2015 [–]

My argument still stands.

Would be commercially sound to support these "plenty of people" ?

icebraining on Jan 22, 2015 | [–]

Apparently it is, since Whatsapp does write clients for them. You can't tell me that writing a J2ME app from scratch is easier than adapting a web client to work on a somewhat more limited browser.

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