Facebook and Whatsapp Agree on Cutting Down Support for Blackberry

"WhatsApp turned seven this week. With an amazing journey so far, and in the coming months, a greater emphasis has been worked upon on security measures and more ways to stay in touch with people" were the words that began in their official blog.

Now, Facebook are planning to stop support for WhatsApp, Facebook and messenger applications for blackberry devices. While continuing to mention that Blackberry devices have been important to them, they also mentioned about the incapability of needs for expanding app features in the future. The news also comes about axing support for Symbian systems S40 and S60 and obsolete versions of android.

Considering about a vision ahead for another seven years, WhatsApp wants to focus on mobile platforms used by a vast number of people. They did mention in their blog that it was a tough decision for them to undertake but claimed it was right in order to serve people in a better way to stay in touch with friends and loved ones. Followed by WhatsApp, Facebook also have decided to follow the footsteps announcing that support for both applications will be halted for Blackberry OS later this year.

Prominent blackberry device Priv running Android v5.1 will however continue enjoying the apps from Google's play store unaffected. Blackberry came out with a statement that they were rather disappointed about such a decision since a majority of users loved those apps. Despite continuing to negotiate with Facebook and WhatsApp, the decision was already made and couldn't be persuaded to change their stance.

According to data on Facebook, their applications are now run on 99.5% of devices from Apple, Google and Microsoft. Blackberry users can however continue using Facebook on the web version to post their content without a dedicated client. Bizarrely, Blackberry however supports Android apps through Amazon's underground app store.

For customers relying on social media this move indicates a switch from other platforms to Blackberry is now put down. WhatsApp messenger currently will be out of support by the end of 2016 if you own any of these devices: Blackberries, Nokia S40 and S60, Android 2.1 and 2.2, Windows mobile 7.1.