> Say Facebook pulls WhatsApp from the app store and makes it only available via side-loading. Say a meteorite hits the Earth and we all die. In a completely

> Say Facebook pulls WhatsApp from the app store and makes it only available via side-loading. Say a meteorite hits the Earth and we all die. In a completely hypothetical scenario there are much worse things that can happen than Facebook voluntarily pulling WhatsApp from the App store, forcing their users to side-load it, gaining nothing on the permissions side of the bargain while at the same time losing a majority of their users or, even more probably, having users stuck on the last version they could install from the store and never update again.