WhatsApp To End Support For BlackBerry, Nokia Operating Systems

Earlier this week WhatsApp turned seven years old, and announced that it will be ending support for Nokia and BlackBerry's operating systems.

The company on there website wrote :

As we look ahead to our next seven years, we want to focus our efforts on the mobile platforms the vast majority of people use. So, by the end of 2016, we will be ending support for WhatsApp Messenger on the following mobile platforms:
― BlackBerry, including BlackBerry 10
― Nokia S40
― Nokia Symbian S60
― Android 2.1 and Android 2.2
― Windows Phone 7.1

In there blog post, the company recalled the memories that the company started its operations in 2009 when the mobile devices used by people were different from what they are now.

But anniversary dates are also an opportunity to look back. When we started WhatsApp in 2009, people's use of mobile devices looked very different from today.

The Apple App Store was only a few months old. About 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia.

The company stated on it's blog that it wants to focus on the mobile platforms that the majority of its users are on.

While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future.

To put it simply, these older platforms don't have the requirements that the company needs in order to improve and expand its service's features.

The company also hinted that it wants to improve the security features for the future versions of the app.

we're putting an even greater emphasis on security features and more ways to stay in touch with the people that you care about.

Whatsapp said.

So the the users using the platform, the support will ending before the 2016 ending.
On there blog whatsapp said

This was a tough decision for us to make, but the right one in order to give people better ways to keep in touch with friends, family, and loved ones using WhatsApp. If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend upgrading to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone before the end of 2016 to continue using WhatsApp.