Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death
by freeflight on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:16AM
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> 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.
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.