Whatsapp: Video Calling

Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by thewhitetulip on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:23AM (#12956698)

I remember reading a long time ago that Whatsapp will not include things like calling/video calling and will focus solely on texting. Why is every messaging app doing the exact same thing and why is there no inter-connectivity between them?

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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by thomasahle on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:26AM (#12956714)

This. And now that Facebook owns WhatsApp, they could at least integrate those two?

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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by gressquel on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:31AM (#12956744)

Given theres already furore due to recent data merging (fb + whatsapp), I dont think it would be a wise decision to integrate them further.

People started using WhatsApp before it was acquired by FB inc. A fair share of these might just leave WhatsApp if were to be merged completely with FB messenger.

There are plenty of alterantives out there.

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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by thomasahle on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:35AM (#12985776)

They don't have to merge them. Just let them speak to each other.

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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by thewhitetulip on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:27AM (#12956723)

Yes, why have both messenger and whatsapp. Additionally it seems they want to kill whatsapp, messenger gets the cool features that whatsapp should have gotten like the bot platform. Whatsapp is like an illegitimate child. Apparently everyone is on whatsapp, the bot platform should have been on whatsapp

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Re:Whatsapp: Video Calling by flawedluck on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:37AM (#12957231)

They can collect a lot more user data from Messenger due to its facebook integration. So obviously, they're going to keep developing Messenger

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