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Hope not - their reaction shouldn't be lawsuits, it should be "hire this guy/ gal"! I don't see why so many popular mobile apps seem to refuse to have web-vers

• egeozcan 11y ago
  > Even if it's less functional. Having something with missing functionality and/or bugs isn't always better than having nothing if you look at it from a marketing perspective. I agree that hiring someone talented who seems to like your brand to work on their extensions of your product would usually be a good investment, just not always.
• misnome 11y ago
  Whatever their reason is, it is certainly not a technical reason e.g. inability to write the client. It's a choice they have made.
• vishnuks 11y ago
  Whatsapp already have a web version. He merely converted that into a desktop client with the help of Node Web Kit.
• joeyspn 11y ago
  > their reaction shouldn't be lawsuits, it should be "hire this guy/gal" For building a webview wrapper with nw.js? It cost me 5 mins to build mine... It's an "app" that will never leave my desktop and I still give Jan Koum credit in the About section... xD http://i.imgur.com/BXu4F7M.png http://i.imgur.com/BXu4F7M.png Let's hope the WhatsApp team won't be too harsh with the guy. Clearly it's been an ingenuous move by a young dev. Hopefully they'll come to terms just taking it down or renaming completely the project.