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Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death by r00fus on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:25PM (#16322234)
This is so naive.

You think WhatsApp of today is the exact same app or backend server logic from a year or two ago?

Any online service is constantly adding functionality on the server side even if the app code is constant ( given its a mobile app this is simply unlikely)

Unless you have an app that's not been upgraded and running in offline mode it's definitely not doing the same thing as a year ago.

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Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death by freeflight on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:16AM (#16323464)
> it's definitely not doing the same thing as a year ago

To me as a user, it does exactly the very, mundane, same thing it always did: Sending and receiving messages. It's not like WhatsApp now has become an awesome 4k video player, it still does the very same thing it always did.

In that regard, "Added functionality on the server side" does literally nothing for me except make the usability worse by making my client perform worse, so what's in it for me except being forced into buying new hardware? As far as I can tell: Nothing at all.

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