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The phone mentioned in the article is a $20 feature phone that runs a fork of FirefoxOS. It's not Jio that's blocking the app, just that it's not available on t
by as1mov 9y ago
The phone mentioned in the article is a $20 feature phone that runs a fork of FirefoxOS. It's not Jio that's blocking the app, just that it's not available on the platform.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoFrom what I can tell, all that Browserling is doing is allowing you to browse as if you were on another browser, and the Indian users are simply wanting to access the Whatsapp web app (https://web.whatsapp.com/ https://web.whatsapp.com/). That must mean that Jio is somehow preventing its users from fully using that webapp. Doesn't matter that there isn't a native Whatsapp app in FirefoxOS.
- orf 9y agoPerhaps Whatsapp web doesn't support the browser on the phone, rather than some conspiracy to block it?
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoThat's probably it. Still my second point that he is actually helping out Whatsapp stands.
- skocznymroczny 9y agoWhatsapp Web on the phone sounds a bit pointless, because it's not really whatsapp web, it's just a frontend for the mobile app (if you lose connection on your phone, you lose connection on Whatsapp Web).
- vinw 9y agoWhatsapp is doing the blocking. See for example the problems that Vivaldi browser has had https://twitter.com/vivaldibrowser/status/644173304404836352?lang=en https://twitter.com/vivaldibrowser/status/644173304404836352...