If I leave my job, can I "log out" of the app on my work machine without access to that machine?
Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App
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I guess if the point is for them not to store your messages on their servers once those messages have been delivered, how is WhatsApp to know whether to send a message to the session logged in from your phone, or to the desktop app with a different session, or to your work computer where you forgot to log out? Being able to sync across all your devices requires they start storing all of your communications centrally,…
Can't it be device to device , once you get to new device you mark that device as add and as soon as u login it can sync. But i found whatsapp is next to mp3 in my and my friends phone so it is not easy from bandwidth perspective
This way, you might not have the full conversation on each device - e.g. you write "a" to alice on your phone, turn it off, turn your pc on and receive "what do you mean?" from alice - the conversation is otherwise empty.
That's not a good UX.
You'd have to store the chat history somehow - and thus loose the privacy aspect of not storing it.
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#164If I leave my job, can I "log out" of the app on my work machine without access to that machine?
Yes, you can log out of any web/desktop client from the mobile app
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I guess no. I uses mobile data to access whatsapp on phone. My chat history is roughly more than 250 MB. The time Whatsapp web takes to download images and messages is far way faster than my actual 2G network on phone.
I think you should try web app disabling the internet on your phone. Have you tried it? If watsup store the messages on its servers, it would be able to retrieve. But this is also not reliable since they may check phone connectivity before they retrieve from their "servers". I am still skeptical that they may store on servers behind the scene at least for speed and performance.
>they may store on servers behind the scene at least for speed and performance.
Yes, that's why I think so. They easily loads all the messages and images in just few seconds even when my phone's internet is too slow.
They won't let you use the web app when you're phone is disconnected, so there's no way to confirm it.
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Remember that there is no sign up, and that your mobile (phone number once registered via SMS OTP) is the only client their servers can trust. Imagine a scenario where you were to get rid of the phone number and had sessions open on the desktop and the web. WhatsApp servers have no way of knowing where the phone number went or if it will be online ever again or if you continue to own the phone number, or someone else…
This doesn't make a whole lot of sense because people give up their phone numbers from time to time. I did this myself. My understanding is that someone who claims my number cannot access my past data. But if it is "stateless" then a phone number doesn't have to be the only identifier. They can also use email. Heck .. here is an algorithm ... use phone number 555XXXXXXX .. take a person's email address and hash it to…
Most people in the world don't (or barely) use email, specially in EMs. Also, you can access you email from many different places, you (usually) can't receive an SMS on the same number from many different places.
Another advantage of using phone numbers is that people actually have other people's numbers in their phone address books, which whatsapp uses. Very few people have their friends' email addresses on their contacts.
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#167Since when it became fashionable to use a wrapper of your web site? "Because the app runs natively on your desktop, you'll have support for native desktop notifications, better keyboard shortcuts, and more." I think Firefox is perfectly capable of doing any of those. I just hate it someone comes up and says 'Look we built a native app' I'm sorry but no you haven't! If I wanted to use your web page I can do that I don't need you to wrap it and ship it as a native app. Disappointed.
Re: Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App
#168Since when it became fashionable to use a wrapper of your web site? "Because the app runs natively on your desktop, you'll have support for native desktop notifications, better keyboard shortcuts, and more." I think Firefox is perfectly capable of doing any of those. I just hate it someone comes up and says 'Look we built a native app' I'm sorry but no you haven't! If I wanted to use your web page I can do that I don…
This app is so native neither CMD + W nor CMD + SHIFT + W closes the Whatsapp window - yay!
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Chrome has that sorted already on android, where you can run up a site with a home screen link, different icon and separate listing in the task list. Given the work they've recently put in on full screen mode on desktop it looks like they're maybe a couple of versions away from having something similar on desktop
Chrome? I thought all browsers had it, my Symbian device did iirc as well as Firefox for Android.
Firefox has it but it's not as tight yet. In particular it doesn't have a good splash screen experience or notifications on android
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