Originally Posted by
Troy Tiscareno Even if you don't use WhatsApp, you should be aware that WhatsApp's decision to drop BB10 support is going to be influential among other app developers. WhatsApp is a Top 10 smartphone application (based on userbase), and this news is going to make other devs question their own commitment to BB10, and many will make the same decision that WhatsApp made. And momentum will start to build as more and more devs pull the plug. If you are familiar with the history of, say, WebOS, this is exactly what happened.