WhatsApp was the only reason I didn't buy a Firefox OS phone here in Brazil.
You need to have WhatsApp to get laid.
Wait... WhatsApp has a J2ME app? Like... a Midlet? From the 90s? For real?
I read somewhere that supporting "ancient" mobiles via j2me was the reason WhatsApp got the advantage over other chat apps. Yes, they (did) put a lot of effort in supporting j2me phones.
EDIT: found source: http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-...
It certainly did have http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-...
Not from the 90s, on many countries feature phones are still a thing, and they do run J2ME.
As best i understand, Whatsapp's support for anything but iOS is "poor" to put it nicely.
bubble-vision. Whatsapp was pretty much messaging standard in South America, non-UK Europe, Russia and non-China SE Asia and I bet those were not majority iOS markets then nor now.
You mean iPhone, because there's no iPad version at all.
Actually, WhatsApp runs on Symbian and Series 40. Many, possibly most, people who use WhatsApp run it on devices that arguably aren't even smartphones.
Works really well on my Android.
Same here!
In response, Mozilla Research started a "j2me.js" project to try running the WhatsApp J2ME app in JavaScript, sharing some code with the Shumway project to run Flash content. If that worked well enough, maybe WhatsApp would become interested. It did actually kinda work, but the project did not proceed for a number of reasons. Also, j2me.js was renamed "PluotSorbet", due to trademark concerns:
https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet