Thank you for the simple and direct answer without attacking like others have been over an honest mistake.
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Whatsapp iOS7
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Thank you for the simple and direct answer without attacking like others have been over an honest mistake.
Got bored of his ugly design and lack of updates (no iOS 7 support and also no new features, one could be call/video..) and so I deleted it.
Also, until this year, Whatsapp was $.99 upfront, so yeah, many people can demand that Whatsapp updates the app for the iOS 7 look just because they paid for it.
On the other hand, I don't think we can "demand" an update, we can hope for it, but demanding an update just because we paid for it, no, we paid for the app as it is, not the updates.
Thanks for the clarification. I honestly thought it was a free app like IMO, text+, Facebook, and lots of other available apps out there. I thin that iTunes should make them list it with the sections for in app payments just like they do others. I looked at Netflix as it was mentioned and it doesn't state anywhere about the account being needed (I subscribe to it so I knew it needed one), but was interested in how it was listed as well. I think that is a terrible plan for it not to be listed and very underhanded for the suppliers of such apps to not be as upfront about it. One should not have to read through the description (and I didn't even see it on Netflix's description) to find the hidden gotchas.
I recently started using whatsapp just a month or so ago to keep in touch with some friends and had i paid for it, I would have been very upset with the UI, even for iOS6. It's glitchy and slow. I only use it for a couple people and not that often so it's not a huge deal for me but I understand why people are upset with it, and I think they have every right to be.
From what I've observed, the quality of the photos and videos on Whatsapp sent from and received on the iDevices on iOS 7 seems to have been greatly deteriorated. Don't even want to comment on the ancient UI design anymore ...
Photos and videos sent/received via WhatsApp have always been heavily compressed. I always send photos with iMessage when possible. If not, I'd rather send them in an email than to send them looking so bad. I agree with you all about the dated design and the name even annoys me!
Last year when the iPhone 5 came out, it took them over 2 months to update the screen size to the larger display. They are lazy as f. I wouldn't expect them to come out with an update for iOS 7 anytime soon.
totally agree. its so annoying...
wish there were alternative apps but seems like my contact list are all on whatsapp.
Same here. Even the iPhone users I personally know don't even want to give iMessage a chance.
Also - not everyone has an iPhone to iMessage them. WhatsApp is definitely one of the best IMs out there. Sure - I would love to see it get updated to iOS7 look and fell. But it still works so that's all good with me.
Here you can find some screenshots a beta tester posted on Twitter and send to some blogs.
- http://www.whatsappen.nl/nieuws/2013/09/21/whatsapp-voor-ios-7-krijgt-nieuw-uiterlijk/
- http://www.whatsappen.nl/nieuws/2013/09/23/nieuwe-screenshots-whatsapp-voor-ios-7-onthuld/
The worst part here is that the iOS 7 SDK has been available for over 4 months and after not even being able to finalize the app, they won't even use any form of design, just the basic available theme. I only heard that the chat bubbles got redesigned a couple of weeks again, but there won't be any green accents or different topbar.
It's truly unbelievable how they operate. Especially since on iOS 7 Whatsapp is really buggy and they just let their users deal with it. If you slide to open a message from the lockscreen or notification center the Ui will be messed up, the badge doesn't show the correct amount of messages or conversations, sometimes messages get lost if you lose connection, etc. On Android updates are almost released weekly.
The waiting continues.
- http://www.whatsappen.nl/nieuws/2013/09/21/whatsapp-voor-ios-7-krijgt-nieuw-uiterlijk/
- http://www.whatsappen.nl/nieuws/2013/09/23/nieuwe-screenshots-whatsapp-voor-ios-7-onthuld/
The worst part here is that the iOS 7 SDK has been available for over 4 months and after not even being able to finalize the app, they won't even use any form of design, just the basic available theme. I only heard that the chat bubbles got redesigned a couple of weeks again, but there won't be any green accents or different topbar.
It's truly unbelievable how they operate. Especially since on iOS 7 Whatsapp is really buggy and they just let their users deal with it. If you slide to open a message from the lockscreen or notification center the Ui will be messed up, the badge doesn't show the correct amount of messages or conversations, sometimes messages get lost if you lose connection, etc. On Android updates are almost released weekly.
The waiting continues.
For the amount of users that WhatsApp has, you would have thought that they would have tried to update as quickly as possible to stop free competing services from catching up. I wont replace it since a lot of my friends have it however I find that I am constantly using iMessage more and more since it is built in natively.
Does anybody know how big WhatsApp is as a company? Like how many developers does it have? I thought that updating apps to iOS 7 was pretty simple, especially for an App which on the surface is quite simple. Maybe they are redesigning it from the ground up for new processors etc and that's why its taking so long...
Does anybody know how big WhatsApp is as a company? Like how many developers does it have? I thought that updating apps to iOS 7 was pretty simple, especially for an App which on the surface is quite simple. Maybe they are redesigning it from the ground up for new processors etc and that's why its taking so long...
I honestly don't know why WhatsApp is so popular!! I know it is cross platform but so is Viber and other apps. Is there anything WhatsApp does does better then Viber? I would quit using WhatsApp anytime if it wasn't for more of my contacts using it compare to Viber.
Whatsapp it's more popular, you don't need 10 apps to do the same thing.
Viber is blocked by some networks so you can use it only over wi-fi.
Personally I find whatsapp better.
