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WhatsApp Chief Confirms iPad App is a Possibility: 'We'd Love to Do It'

I can appreciate how complex this software is, but such a massive company like Meta can't even get notifications to work right with their Meta Suite app (formally Business Suite, formally Page Manager ... major identity crisis!).

You're in a conversation with a customer, and for every message they send, another notification comes. Like WTF. And the badge count on the app is super-sticky. It's nearly impossible to figure out why it's still showing. The number of times that I've had to force-quit the app to make it go away is countless.

I really wish there was a better option for customer engagement, but with Facebook being such a popular platform, it's essential to support.
 
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HiVolt said:
FB wants you to only use these apps on phones, so they can track you wherever you are. an iPad doesn't afford such luxuries, because they're mostly used at home.
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WhatsApp was already the most used chat app in the world before FB bought them. They never fully supported more than a phone because most of their user base only uses a phone to message. iPads are first world problems. There's also a desktop app, but it sucks.
 
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sudo-sandwich said:
If you care that much about privacy/security, Telegram isn't the answer. Home-rolled crypto, insecure defaults. You're best off with Signal if you care or anything else if you don't.
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It’s all a balance. Sure, Signal may be more secure, but Telegram is far better than WhatsApp. Telegram also has a Twitter-like component, minus the censorship.
 
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LOL, what a dumb response. "We'd love to do it".

Why haven't you? It's like Apple with a calculator or weather app for the iPad.
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Problem with a Calculator on iPad is that it would have to be huge in order to fill the entire screen, imagine a ridiculously huge 12.9" Calculator on the 12.9" iPad Pro!

Maybe in 2030 iPadOS will allow us to have multiple resizable windows opened at same time, like on the 1990 Windows 3.0, so we can finally have a small Calculator on iPad that takes only part of the screen while opened at same time with other apps.
 
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Problem with a Calculator on iPad is that it would have to be huge in order to fill the entire screen, imagine a ridiculously huge 12.9" Calculator on the 12.9" iPad Pro!

Maybe in 2030 iPadOS will allow us to have multiple resizable windows opened at same time, like on the 1990 Windows 3.0, so we can finally have a small Calculator on iPad that takes only part of the screen while opened at same time with other apps.
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There are plenty of 3rd party apps that work just fine. not all have massive buttons. some incorporate other features that take up the larger space.

It's not rocket science, Apple is just being stubborn about not creating the calculator or weather app. The refusal to make the weather app is even worse, since there have been so many 3rd party weather apps that present the information in a far better way than on the smaller iPhone screen.
 
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caliguy said:
Zero reason to use WhatsApp. Get Telegram.
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Agree

However here in Asia, everything runs on WA, so I still need it

As a software engineer I can appreciate how much effort it takes to go from a single device E2E encrypted system to multi device.

In Software 101 it would be a classic example how something that would cost them maybe one guy and 1-2 months engineering time in the beginning of the development to now 1-2 years with dozens of engineers, disruptions to the service, and a 100 service and support people in place, QA teams etc.

So the cost to implement this now vs starting out like that from day 1, is easily 10,000x

Of course in the beginning those 1-2 months can be the difference between life and death for a startup.

But it's still interesting from a software engineering perspective.
 
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There are plenty of 3rd party apps that work just fine. not all have massive buttons. some incorporate other features that take up the larger space.

It's not rocket science, Apple is just being stubborn about not creating the calculator or weather app. The refusal to make the weather app is even worse, since there have been so many 3rd party weather apps that present the information in a far better way than on the smaller iPhone screen.
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The weird thing is Apple bought Dark Sky and it had a decent iPad App, but it looks like it will be sunset soon.
 
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There are plenty of 3rd party apps that work just fine. not all have massive buttons. some incorporate other features that take up the larger space.

It's not rocket science, Apple is just being stubborn about not creating the calculator or weather app. The refusal to make the weather app is even worse, since there have been so many 3rd party weather apps that present the information in a far better way than on the smaller iPhone screen.
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Really lame - shows Apple doesn't really care about the iPad - they're not giving in the love it deserves.
 
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