The creator of WhatsApp accuses Apple and its iMessage of plagiarism
The conference for developers WWDC 2014 took place yesterday, focused on the news of Apple The ideal place to present news about services and applications of iOS as your own messaging application is iMessage A tool that will bring many new features this fall together with its arrival with iOS 8 The news is that according to the creator of WhatsApp, all these new functions are nothing more than a copy of what this application already offers.A whole missing the concept of innovation that Apple has always offered.
This has been made known by Jan Koum, the creator and still CEO of WhatsApp through his account on the social network Twitter All this through a single along with irónico message saying: Very flattered to see Apple “borrowed” several WhatsApp features for iMessage on iOS 8 . And he closed his message with an even more ironic label or even “Innovation” A more than clear, direct message and maybe a little indignant after the presentation ofManzana
And it is that Tim Cock and those responsible for carrying out the news of iOS 8 and specifically from iMessage (Messages in Spanish), they could have noticed the most widespread and used messaging application among thesmartphones of all platforms.Among them is the new feature to share audio messages in the purest style walkie talkie, a possible legacy of Press to Talk about what WhatsApp already introduced to its users a few months ago.
In addition to this issue, iMessage finally lets you share your locationof the user. Something it does differently from WhatsApp by allowing it to be done during certain periods of time or always to know where the user is. Along with this, a space has also been left for shared files in a conversation, being able to find all the photos together in the same space without moving through the entire the chat screen. And even more, now there is a management similar to group conversations as carried out in WhatsApp Finally, iMessage has also included the ability to send videos that self-destruct.Something that draws directly from Snapchat more than from WhatsApp, but again highlights the lack of innovation of Apple in this matter.
Although, we must give it the merit of putting everything together in the same application and doing it with a certain style, through comfortable gestures and an attractive visual aspect very much in the line of iOS 7 However, it is clear that in this instant messages WhatsApp continues to be the first, at least in terms of number of users And it is that the new messaging functions arrive added to theirdifferent competitors and alternatives, of which iMessage is just one more. A reliable, beautiful and now more complete tool, copy or not questions from WhatsApp, but it will hardly be able to remove the crown.Of course, it already allows you to read messages SMS and send videos that self-destruct, issues with that WhatsApp has not even faced each other.
