{"id":208,"date":"2013-06-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2013\/06\/20\/i-started-using-whatsapp-last-night\/"},"modified":"2013-06-20T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:00:00","slug":"i-started-using-whatsapp-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2013\/06\/20\/i-started-using-whatsapp-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"I started using WhatsApp last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WhatsApp\">WhatsApp &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><br \/>\nMy 1st device to start the WhatsApp with was my Samsung Galaxy S2. I sat on the bus going through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sankt_Pauli\">Hamburg St. Pauli<\/a>, and my mobile phone Internet connection wasn&#8217;t really all that stable. It changed from 3G (whatever variant of UMTS) through E (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution\">EDGE<\/a>) through G (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GSM\">GSM<\/a>), and WhatsApp kept saying &#8220;Initializing \u2026&#8221; for ages. I looked the situation up on the Internet, once I was at my place, and I was a little \u00a0worried. I decided to simply end the respective active application, to go through Wi-Fi on the Android device this time, \u00a0and start it again. In other words: no I did not attempt to wipe the installation on the device. WhatsApp came back almost instantly and successfully, and I had a registered account from then on.<\/p>\n<p>Is it true,\u00a0(quoting from the Wikipedia article) &#8220;<i>that WhatsApp required users to upload their entire mobile phone&#8217;s address book to WhatsApp servers so that WhatsApp could discover who, among the users&#8217; existing contacts, is available via WhatsApp<\/i>&#8220;? Damn WhatsApp, if they dare to spam my contacts!<\/p>\n<p>From the WhatsApp FAQ: &#8220;<i>Is my device supported?<\/i>&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/faq\/en\/general\/20951556\">link<\/a>]<br \/><i>\u2026 We currently do not support tablets, computers, or Wi-Fi only devices, and do not plan to do so in the foreseeable future.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to say, where WhatsApp is really going to (how they want to make money), and why to prevent non-phones to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>I think, for the time being, I am going to start WhatsApp only on demand.<\/p>\n<p>In theory using &#8220;a general XMPP client&#8221; is superior over using separate dedicated ones. But WTF why do people use WhatsApp? They don&#8217;t need to enter passwords, they don&#8217;t need to find and add their contacts, as their contacts are simply identified by their mobile phone number. Enough &#8220;pros&#8221;? 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