Social media applications Facebook and WhatsApp has decided to end all support for BlackBerry smartphones. 10 handsets including the BlackBerry and other smartphones running BBOS platform.
Reporting from, deccanchronicle.com, the Facebook has decided to discontinue support for BlackBerry APIs, which will certainly affect the work of the existing facebook. Afterwards, BlackBerry users can only use Facebook through the browser.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp has also announced their plans to discontinue support for all BlackBerry handsets last month.
However, to overcome this problem the BlackBerry has replaced Facebook BB App with applications that will use the display interface simple browser.
BlackBerry users require in order to update their Facebook applications. This new update will change the application it into a link that when clicked will take the user to a web version of Facebook.
"We are very disappointed with their decision, but as we know so many users are in love with this application. We fought back to working with WhatsApp and Facebook again, and change their minds. But this time, it is their decision," quoted from Blackberry blog
BlackBerry device users must download or download the update for App Facebook in late March.
Therefore, these applications will stop working on BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry handsets 7.1.
This change will greatly impact for the users of BB. They will lose some of the features that were previously very giving ease.
Among these notifications or notification messages that no longer can integrate contacts from your Facebook contacts with their BB. In addition, users Blacknberry also can not use the feature to share photos or other content as before.
Meanwhile quoted from kompas.com, WhatsApp instant messaging service provider announced it would withdraw its support from 5 mobile operating systems, including BlackBerry and BlackBerry 10 at the end of 2016.
This was revealed by WhatsApp in a posting on its official blog uploaded on Friday (02/26/2016) then. As for the operating system in question is as follows:
Nokia S40,
Nokia Symbian S60,
Windows Phone 7.1,
Android 2.1 and Android 2.2, and
BlackBerry (including BlackBerry 10)
According WhatsApp, it was done because it wanted to focus on the mobile platform that is still widely used alone.
"The operating system has become an important part of our history, but they do not have the ability that can make us grow in the future," wrote WhatsApp.
WhatsApp also suggested if there are still users of mobile devices with the operating system on top, then you should switch to Android devices, iPhone or Windows Phone latest before the end of 2016.
Users BlackBerry OS itself at the end of 2015 and it is getting smaller.
ComScore Survey Mobilens calls per BlackBerry users in December 2015 and 0.9 per cent lived alone.
In fact, according to Strategy Analytics survey, BlackBerry has lost prestige of the Tizen OS, a Linux-based operating system developed by Samsung is now the 4th most popular OS in the world after Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
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