Thread: WHATSAPP porting , need some help guys !
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ColaCheater is offline ColaCheater
2012-02-15 , 19:45
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#123
Originally Posted by hobarrera View Post
Finally, let me state that while I think this is a cool effort to open up the maemo community, I wonder this:
Why do you want to use a closed-source, pay-for, closed-protocol, when you can opt for something pretty open like XMPP (gtalk is just one more XMPP server), or at least something that isn't closed and pay-for. Maemo supports all of this, as does android, pidgin, desktop, etc.
Thank you for this clarification. I don't know anything about Pidgin/Telepathy/etc. so this helped me to get a better overview

The Question "why WA when there are so many other alternatives" I think is a very discussable theme and you can't get an universal answer.
If you think you don't need it it's okay but there also are reasons why you may want to have it. I think the biggest is simply the same why I also hesitate to buy a N9 at the moment: Everybody is using it and just one single person with an different idea may can convince his nearest friends but it is very difficult to get everybody use the alternatives. Especally because the OpenSource/Free alternatives are mostly not that easy to use or to set up etc. what makes it even harder
Most of the people I know don't care how WhatsApp works or how any other App works, for them it's important that everybody else has it and it is easy to set up/use.