Finally! WhatsApp gives into one of its ‘biggest requests’ – could Instagram follow? – Stuff

Home / News / Finally! WhatsApp gives into one of its ‘biggest requests’ – could Instagram follow? We finally have what Meta itself admits was one of its most requested WhatsApp features from users Hell has frozen over. Well at least that’s what it seemed like would have to happen before WhatsApp launched….an iPad app for Apple’s popular tablet. And it’s available now through the App Store. Yes, 15 years after the debut of Apple’s tablet and 16 years after the launch of the independent WhatsApp (before it was swallowed by Meta) we finally have what the company itself admits was one of its ‘biggest requests’. And no wonder. According to DataReportal, WhatsApp is used by around a quarter of the world’s population. Over 2bn people. Yep. So the question remains why it has taken so long to do an app for the world’s most popular tablet. Head of WhatsApp Will Cathcart stated in a 2022 interview with The Verge that “people have wanted an iPad app for a long time… We’d love to do it”. Clearly not so much as to do it within the last three years, leaving iPad users in the odd place of having to use
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