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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by ForHackernews on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:28PM (#14563027)
WhatsApp is (AFAIK) the only major chat service that offers a J2ME app. There are a _lot_ of feature phones in the Global South, and a lot of telecoms that charge gouging rates for SMS and MMS.
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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by sangnoir on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:15PM (#14563979)
> WhatsApp is (AFAIK) the only major chat service that offers a J2ME app

WhatsApp's support for J2ME ended in 2016[1] - it is now smartphone only, because it requires "advanced features" (or bloat) to compete with Snapchat and complete Facebook's flanking manoeuvre (along with Instagram).

1. https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/s60/21099118

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by ForHackernews on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:45AM (#14567486)
Ah, I guess my information is out of date. It's sad that Facebook owns WhatsApp now.
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