WhatsApp Browser Messaging Will Not Run On iOS

Facebook Inc’s (NASDAQ: FB) WhatsApp platform announced a browser-based version of its messaging service on Wednesday.

The release was not made available, however, to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iOS users. On its blog, WhatsApp stated, “Unfortunately for now, we will not be able to provide web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations.”

Gigaom commented on the issue, but it was unclear why iOS could not run the web client. According to the report, an iOS version is coming but no timeframe has been provided.

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