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I recommend Franz ( http://meetfranz.com/ ). Does Whatsapp, works on Linux, mac, pc. Supports Slack, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe and Skype.
This is just a wrapper for web clients of the "protocols" they support. So WhatsApp is web.whatsapp.com in a tab, Skype is web.skype.com, etc.
This just seems to be exactly like the Whatsapp Web running in the browser. I don't understand what benefit comes from the native client.
> Because the app runs natively on your desktop, you'll have support for native desktop notifications, better keyboard shortcuts, and more.
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This is just a wrapper for web clients of the "protocols" they support. So WhatsApp is web.whatsapp.com in a tab, Skype is web.skype.com, etc.
It appears as though WhatsApp desktop is basically a wrapper on web.whatsapp.com as well.
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Actually yes, that is exactly what they do: Download everything from the phone.
Including 2MB images in the conversation? Has someone verified this by looking at the traffic?
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You are misinformed. Microsoft even supports Vista, not to mention 7. [1] In addition, if XP support deadline extensions are anything to go by, then these Windows 7 end-of-support dates will get moved several times until they stick. Beyond that, Windows 7 remains by far the most popular Windows version, exceeding the combined market share of Windows 8, Windows 8.1 & Windows 10. [2][3] Unrelated to market share & OS u…
> You are misinformed. According to Wikipedia I'm not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#Support_lifecycle "Mainstream support for 7 ended on January 13, 2015." I think it's reasonable that businesses don't support an OS version beyond the OS's provider's own "mainstream support". > Thus it's not that likely that Windows 7 wouldn't be supported by a Win32 app (which this is), unless they go out of their way to…
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I feel the same way. Just build an independent app already. Telegram did it well. What's stopping WhatsApp ?
Monetization strategy is what's stopping Whatsapp. Eventually, there will be an official API so business can hook CRMs to clients' Whatsapp accounts. However, FB is first trying that with Messenger API/bots. I assume Whatsapp API/bots comes next. FB did not pay billions for the most popular chat app just to let 1 billion people use it for free forever...
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With a desktop app you can easily and quickly command-tab to it if you want to use it. In contrast with a web app it's often awkward and time consuming to find the window/tab of the web app you're running amongst your other browser windows/tabs.
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
Still tethered to a phone... i'll just keep using this https://github.com/Aluxian/WhatsApp-Desktop
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Actually yes, that is exactly what they do: Download everything from the phone.
Including 2MB images in the conversation? Has someone verified this by looking at the traffic?
I haven't analysed any traffic and I'm not a developer but my layman's guess would be that the WhatsApp mobile app has a pre-prepared Zip file (or some other compressed container) with the 20 most recent messages from each chat plus these compressed image thumbnails and the Web Client pulls that data from the phone upon initialising. I doubt it is a big data transfer.
Why is Facebook/WhatsApp doing the tether to the phone crap? I have a few seniors in the family who have no need of a cellphone (stay at home most of the time). Everyone else in the family uses WhatsApp and these poor people are left out of the look. It is completely stupid as far as I can see. What is the phone requirement buying them?