WhatsApp debuts new in-app shopping features and more
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You can now buy goodies directly within the app.

All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.

  • Neptune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    2 years ago

    WhatsApp is a shithole. Communities, Channels, Payments, Avatars all these destroyed the simple chat app. Meta is aiming for a monopoly here.

    Signal and Telegram pretty much useless if you don’t have your needful people on the platform.

  • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    Great, I can’t wait for Whatsapp to be the only way to reach customer support and make payments. I always felt the confused look of people when I tell them I don’t have Whatsapp wasn’t enough.

  • skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    191·
    2 years ago

    I feel like FOSS apps keep getting more viable while closed source apps keep getting worse. I feel like the next version of the internet is the one few know about. Even Mastodon is getting better, and Lemmy is pretty much a reddit equivalent now.

  • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 years ago

    At the company’s global Conversations event in Mumbai, WhatsApp introduced an in-app shopping feature for merchants and customers. Dubbed ”Flows,” […]

    That name sounds more like a feminine hygiene product than a shopping platform.

  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    This is kind of funny. Some of these features I would see see as Google’s turf. However, since Google can’t create a text messaging service, Meta can use their messaging app to encroach.

  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    it really depends.

    If it’s different parts of the same system I really don’t like if it gets split up to multiple apps. Take steam, there I need two apps, one for the general store and it’s functions and one for communicating with my friends. In that case I’d rather would have one app that fits all.

    But if I don’t need several functions of an app and they are also hurting the experience with it, I’d rather would have the sourced out to other apps.