konknaijaboy | On 26, Jan 2015

Facebook’s baby, WhatsApp said last Wednesday that users can now send messages from desktop browsers by using WhatsApp Web provided they are not Apple devices, for reason of ‘Apple platform limitations’.

A caveat:

While announcing the new service, WhatsApp said in a blog post: ‘Today, for the first time, millions of you will have the ability to use WhatsApp on your web browser. Our web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device — this means all of your messages still live on your phone’.

It has been said however that WhatsApp’s Web only supports Google Chrome. So if you use Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer, no dice.

It also does not offer the ‘block’ function.

What’s more, while you can send and receive messages from groups you’re a part of, the WhatsApp web client doesn’t let you create new groups or leave existing ones.

Since its acquisition by Facebook about one year ago WhatsApp has increased its user base to over 700 millon up from 500 million in April 2014, but it only started making money by end of 2014.

Source: CyberNewsToday