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#1508
Few developers make me so angry as WhatsApp's ones. They just took XMPP, made a couple of changes so that it does not work with normal clients, forgot about any kind of security and call it a day. Their biggest idea is using phone numbers as identifiers and marketing their app as an SMS replacement instead of an internet chat.
Great citation. And a really sickening thing that WhatsApp is.

Regarding Web APIs - I don't think they are bad when they are provided in addition to native APIs. When they are the only option - it's really bad.

Last edited by shmerl; 2012-09-27 at 17:36.