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WhatsApp Ends Support for iOS 9, Now Requires iPhone 5 or Later to Work
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Apple ends updates for a 5 year old iPhone:
"Thank you Apple for supporting phones for so long. They are such an innovative company and really care about their consumers, no one else supports phones for this long, blah blah blah blah blah"
Whatsapp ends updates for a 10 year old iPhone:
"How dare they! Their solution is to spend more money? They're completely evil!"
Nice looking interfaceSanta still uses an iPhone 4S
That's workable on a one or two person basis; but I have clients in places where What's App is the default communications preference.
If they are clients and therefore a business then really they should be caring about security and ensuring their staff have in support phones, they don't have to be expensive or brand new ones. I doubt this will affect any serious business really
While I agree with your sentiment, in many parts of the world that is unworkable because of the costs. Services such as WhatsApp make it very cost effective to conduct conference calls across multiple countries and time zones. Replicating that would be very costly if you bought a service. Quite frankly, most calls do not need that high of a level of security.
I agree, since iOS 9 and earlier iOS versions are what, 8% or less of the installed base.
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Care to explain what the hell socks and mail order glasses have to do with iPhones?
Are you suggesting Miu Miu, Burberry and Valentino are not serious businesses?
WhatsApp has big ambitions to be a shopping platform
As parent company Facebook faces a call to divest from WhatsApp, it sees shopping as WhatsApp’s path to making money.
Luxury store sales associates from brands including Miu Miu, Burberry and Valentino have increasingly turned to WhatsApp to correspond with high-net-worth customers, alerting them to new product drops or offering new sizes in a personal one-on-one manner. Personal shoppers for Yoox Net-a-Porter often send edits of products to its most important customers.
“This is becoming a new normal in the selling ceremony,” says Federica Levato, a Milan-based partner at Bain & Company. “During and after lockdowns, luxury brands used social media and instant messaging to establish an intimate connection with customers.” Now, she adds, client advisors are still using these platforms to enable direct dialogue and create commercial hooks that ultimately trigger an in-store experience or remote sale.
This type of international, one-to-one selling, or chat-based commerce, is exactly what WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, is trying to encourage. Because WhatsApp doesn’t gather personal data required for ad targeting, it doesn’t run ads. To make money, it’s looking to boost its business features (some free, some paid-for) that more officially position it as a commerce and customer service tool. In recent months, WhatsApp added a shopping button to product catalogues, then tacked on “carts” to let people select multiple products to send in a message at once. Perhaps most tellingly, it announced plans to buy customer service platform Kustomer — an expert in text message tech — and began testing in-app payments.
With personal clienteling on the upswing and store traffic down, fashion brands targeting international customers present a compelling demographic for both WhatsApp and Facebook
Too late. I already hit the delete key with respect to WhatsApp. I'll figure out how to do my shopping outside of the app.Are you suggesting Miu Miu, Burberry and Valentino are not serious businesses?
WhatsApp has big ambitions to be a shopping platform
As parent company Facebook faces a call to divest from WhatsApp, it sees shopping as WhatsApp’s path to making money.www.voguebusiness.com
Luxury store sales associates from brands including Miu Miu, Burberry and Valentino have increasingly turned to WhatsApp to correspond with high-net-worth customers, alerting them to new product drops or offering new sizes in a personal one-on-one manner. Personal shoppers for Yoox Net-a-Porter often send edits of products to its most important customers.
“This is becoming a new normal in the selling ceremony,” says Federica Levato, a Milan-based partner at Bain & Company. “During and after lockdowns, luxury brands used social media and instant messaging to establish an intimate connection with customers.” Now, she adds, client advisors are still using these platforms to enable direct dialogue and create commercial hooks that ultimately trigger an in-store experience or remote sale.
This type of international, one-to-one selling, or chat-based commerce, is exactly what WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, is trying to encourage. Because WhatsApp doesn’t gather personal data required for ad targeting, it doesn’t run ads. To make money, it’s looking to boost its business features (some free, some paid-for) that more officially position it as a commerce and customer service tool. In recent months, WhatsApp added a shopping button to product catalogues, then tacked on “carts” to let people select multiple products to send in a message at once. Perhaps most tellingly, it announced plans to buy customer service platform Kustomer — an expert in text message tech — and began testing in-app payments.
With personal clienteling on the upswing and store traffic down, fashion brands targeting international customers present a compelling demographic for both WhatsApp and Facebook
It’s somewhat reasonable but also legitimately frustrating. Imagine if you had a ten year old car in good working condition but they just stopped making windshield wipers that were compatible with it. Perfectly good car that isn’t going to win any races but still drives only now it can’t go on the road if it’s raining or snowing because of this one small and inexpensive part.
The reason is probably, that Apple does not allow Devs to release new Apps for iOS9 anymore.
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At first I read that as OS 9, as in Mac OS 9. Now that would have been amazing if they had been supporting Mac OS 9 all these years!
Nope, in fact you’ve just given an example of my point. Real Businesses like those won’t have a fleet of iPhone 4s phones out there so this news won’t affect them.Are you suggesting Miu Miu, Burberry and Valentino are not serious businesses?
WhatsApp has big ambitions to be a shopping platform
As parent company Facebook faces a call to divest from WhatsApp, it sees shopping as WhatsApp’s path to making money.
Luxury store sales associates from brands including Miu Miu, Burberry and Valentino have increasingly turned to WhatsApp to correspond with high-net-worth customers, alerting them to new product drops or offering new sizes in a personal one-on-one manner. Personal shoppers for Yoox Net-a-Porter often send edits of products to its most important customers.
“This is becoming a new normal in the selling ceremony,” says Federica Levato, a Milan-based partner at Bain & Company. “During and after lockdowns, luxury brands used social media and instant messaging to establish an intimate connection with customers.” Now, she adds, client advisors are still using these platforms to enable direct dialogue and create commercial hooks that ultimately trigger an in-store experience or remote sale.
This type of international, one-to-one selling, or chat-based commerce, is exactly what WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, is trying to encourage. Because WhatsApp doesn’t gather personal data required for ad targeting, it doesn’t run ads. To make money, it’s looking to boost its business features (some free, some paid-for) that more officially position it as a commerce and customer service tool. In recent months, WhatsApp added a shopping button to product catalogues, then tacked on “carts” to let people select multiple products to send in a message at once. Perhaps most tellingly, it announced plans to buy customer service platform Kustomer — an expert in text message tech — and began testing in-app payments.
With personal clienteling on the upswing and store traffic down, fashion brands targeting international customers present a compelling demographic for both WhatsApp and Facebook
While I agree in principal, as a consultant I am pretty much tied to what the client uses. I can say I'm on X, Y, and Z but whatever they want is what I use. I've had clients give me internal email and a PC and ID Badge with a security chip to run access it (no OWA, only desktop); even though I use a Mac I'm stuck with Office because things need to be 100% compatible (and thus have a VM with the Win Office 365 suite installed as well as the Mac version to verify compatibility).
The best part of WhatsApp is the ability to call a person's cell phone for no charge; with clients spread out internationally that is a real money saver; Skype only does free Skype to Skype so I have to buy time if I want to use it. I have one colleague who has Skype, WhatsApp, etc. installed but never can seem to figure them out. I call his mobile using Skype and tell him to call me on WhatsApp but he can't seem to grasp how to get it to work.
Smart man; even if he is a Berliner...
That's precisely my point. I was just praising Apple for allowing users to update their devices for 5 years. It could be more, but there is way worse than this out there.
Socks, glasses, and phones -- all essential for modern life with great inequality in terms of access. Older models of phones sold as new to less afluent countries forces those users into shorter support for security patches, which is particularly sad in countries that use those vulnerabilities to spy on their citizens.