And no IPad version to

        • Che Banana@lemmy.ml
          20·
          10 months ago

          Couple reasons:

          WhatsApp was its own company, took advantage of an open market in EU where SMS (and “international” phone calls?) were extra rate charges on mobile phones. Once every one got accustomed to using whatsapp Meta took it over and now we’re stuck with it.

        • meliaesc@lemmy.world
          91·
          10 months ago

          To communicate with anyone outside of the US, where it is extremely popular and is the main interaction with many businesses as well.

        • mayonaise_met@feddit.nl
          3·
          10 months ago

          The reason is the network effect. I want to use signal or rather even an EU based messaging service, but everybody, including businesses, are on WhatsApp in my country.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
      6·
      10 months ago

      I just use discord via the browser. Why would I allow it to harvest my data as an app?

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        10 months ago

        Because the desktop app works without having your phone around, if I remember correctly. It’s a relatively recent feature.

          • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
            3·
            10 months ago

            The web version isn’t a standalone client like Signal, which registers as an additional device with e2e. WhatsApp web communicates with the WhatsApp app, so it doesn’t work if the phone isn’t connected to the internet (in early versions it had to be the same network, if I remember correctly).

            I believe WA introduced a feature which allowed the desktop app to function standalone like Signal. Signal Desktop adds a second device with it’s own keys, so contacts send automatically messages to two devices. I’m not sure if it works the same for WA, and if they even have the feature. I don’t have a compatible desktop.

  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
    14·
    10 months ago

    Facebook couldn’t bother making a proper Android app for years. Now you want them to make Linux apps? The likelihood is small…

  • Rin@lemm.ee
    12·
    10 months ago

    My MF smartwatch has WhatsApp but still no Linux version.

    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      10 months ago

      Technically you could run an Android container on Linux like with Waydroid and get WhatsApp too, it’s just that there’ll probably be more Android users

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 months ago

    Discord on Linux kinda sucks, though. It’s more resource demanding than the Windows version and I can’t even stream with audio.

    • Amends1782@lemmy.ca
      2·
      10 months ago

      I honeslty haven’t had any issues with it. But I’m sire others are. I feel like that’s the biggest challenge since there’s a ton of distros and architectures

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I just use Discord from my browser where it’s at least sandboxed and doesn’t have access to my filesystem.

      Since it’s an electron app anyway it’s basically the same as the app.

    • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I use it in the browser on Linux and it works fine. Everything works. They’re electron app is poorly deployed.

  • Andrew@mander.xyz
    132·
    10 months ago

    You shouldn’t use this app in the first place. It had many data breaches and it copy everything from Telegram (maybe everyone copies, but I don’t use other apps). I only mainly use Telegram and Matrix.

    • n1ved@lemmy.world
      10·
      10 months ago

      It’s impossible to convince that to friends and family. In my country everyone use WhatsApp as primary messaging app . It’s kind of like iMessage situation in US

      • Andrew@mander.xyz
        2·
        10 months ago

        It’s nice that a lot of my surroundings have finally jumped to Telegram. Previously it was Viber (bleh). But it’s much hard to go to Matrix because it’s much much less feature rich and less polished then Telegram. I can easily use it as a basic text messenger, but that’s about it. So Telegram is a solid middle ground. Can’t wait for the multi server Matrix accounts.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        42·
        10 months ago

        Neither of which run well on Linux. Don’t use proprietary software when there are other options

        • Pyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I’ve been running Discord just fine on Linux. It’s just a web wrapper, after all. What issues have you been having with it?

        • _user_@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          Last time I tried Viber, it ran fine on Linux, what issues have you had with it?

          Discord also works pretty well, minus the white flashing when scrolling through GIFs for me

          • Octopus@thelemmy.club
            1·
            10 months ago

            I had a problem with Viber on Linux, it crashed when picking up or starting a call, but that was quickly fixed.

            • _user_@lemmy.world
              1·
              10 months ago

              Admittedly haven’t tried calling with it, that being said I still need to reinstall it on my main laptop (only recently switched to Linux on that, was using an old laptop with Linux before that), so I’ll try some stuff again

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            32·
            10 months ago

            Viber and Discord aren’t free (libre) software and should be avoided. I’ve never ran them because of that reason. However, I’ve heard lots of complaints of proprietary mainstream applications not being great on Linux.

            • dmrzl@programming.dev
              6·
              10 months ago

              “Neither of which run well on Linux.”

              “I’ve never ran them because of that reason.”

              Yikes.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
    6·
    10 months ago

    There are plenty of desktop wrappers available for the Web version. I don’t use WhatsApp often but from my experience it seems fairly similar to the Windows desktop app

    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      10 months ago

      Afaik they created a Windows client that’s native sort of recently and I’m pretty sure it’s a better experience than the web version because that’s one slow as hell to initially load for me.

  • AlbyEvent@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    You can install an apps which basically display the WhatsApp webpage like an app, if you use flathub at least