[dejanh]

I know I am be late to the party but have any of you seen what has happened with this project and read the front page? This is absolutely disgusting, what BlackBerry did. I really have nothing more to say. So much for supporting indie development. Just go and do a quick read.

http://openwhatsapp.org/

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[Z10andy]

Not a good way to treat anyone in my opinion.

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[Suraj Jadhav]

Unable to download....


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[anon(4320318)]

Way to burn bridges. Wazzapp/Open Whatsapp has tremendous support across other communities in the mobile space, thanks to Whatsapp's selective approach to development. Hope BlackBerry have the spin doctors ready for this one...

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[MeerMusik]

Wow seems BlackBerry keeps f*cking his Customers and Developers. I don't use this WhatsApp thing but that's a very bad sign. BlackBerry needs to be sued. They simply can't be longer allowed to keep going this way. If needed, a Corporation like BlackBerry needs to be destroyed forever. No Corporation should be ever allowed to misuse People as their Personal Dev Slaves.

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[dacunto]

Eh.

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[Suraj Jadhav]

I am going to side load it

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[zocster]

Disappointing indeed

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[milksteaks]

Wow that sucks! But to be honest, this situation shouldn't have come as a huge surprise to anyone as it's obvious that many companies are waiting for BB10 to pick up some steam before developing for the platform. As such, this scenario was foreseeable as it was always a possibility that Whatsapp would eventually be made for BB10. What happens to Openwhatsapp once Whatsapp arrives should have been discussed (in writing) with BlackBerry from the get-go.

Don't expect corporations to treat you nicely out of goodwill. They are profit-driven entities that make decisions based on what is good for the company and shareholders, not what is good for an indie developer. Lesson learned: anticipate and protect yourself.

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[anon5814103]

Isn't this way old? What am I missing..

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[bgregory902]

Sounds like the good old world of business to me. It sucks for this developer, but at the same time BlackBerry has to do what it can to secure the big players and if it means guaranteeing exclusivity to these big players then they would be foolish not to.

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[scorepion]

I somewhat understand, but still a low blow and a shameful act from Blackberry :-(

Swoosh... swiped from my Z10

[Baked]

Wow seems BlackBerry keeps f*cking his Customers and Developers. I don't use this WhatsApp thing but that's a very bad sign. BlackBerry needs to be sued. They simply can't be longer allowed to keep going this way. If needed, a Corporation like BlackBerry needs to be destroyed forever. No Corporation should be ever allowed to misuse People as their Personal Dev Slaves.

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Go thing apple has all those over worked and under paid Chinese working day and night at foxxcon. Those nets around the builds aren't really big hammocks....

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[sandman10]

I wonder if he now uses a Z or a Q10?

[Suraj Jadhav]

And looks like this app has been blocked both on app world as well as WhatsApp network. Ain't receiving verification SMS to start using it.

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[ESCON]

This is so old...

[Asmooh]

Maybe miscommunication?

Let's wait what BlackBerry going to say about it

And if WhatsApp also blocked it than its not BlackBerry fault!


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[jamesd98ca]

I know I am be late to the party but have any of you seen what has happened with this project and read the front page? This is absolutely disgusting, what BlackBerry did. I really have nothing more to say. So much for supporting indie development. Just go and do a quick read. The Open WhatsApp projectPosted via CB10

Old and irrelevant news.

[Tyler Gillan]

It's unfortunate and BlackBerry should have maybe done a bit more for the developer like maybe giving him some form of compensation.
But in the end BlackBerry needs big name, first party apps. This is bigger and far more important to them than the success of a single app or developer. They know that without the apps that people want the platform will fail.
BlackBerry should have done more for this Dev, they should have apologized for it if they really worked so closely with the developer.

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[THBW]

This is old news. Further, there are some very significant security concerns with open whatsup, to the point that BB apparently had some very heated discussions with the developer. There are also some serious copyright/trademark infringements that open whatsup has yet to address. To be honest, there is something a bit shady about open whatups and it seems to me one should stay clear of this group.

[EnchantedBB]

I failed to find anything intelligent in what you said.

[BlackQtCoder]

sore point ... not easy ...

[edu3110]

Not cool...

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[jake42563]

Yes this is way Old!

[mylrob]

First of all, in this post you see only ONE side of the story. And it's not "BlackBerry f... things up again ", but protecting its business. Anyone here heard of infringement lawsuits?

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