Revolution in the Meta house, which is preparing to say goodbye to the native application WhatsApp intended for Windows systems to strongly focus towards the improvement of a new web app.
A lightning bolt and a seemingly incomprehensible choice for the millions of users who still use the program on desktop and laptop, also because the downloads of the application on the store continue to be very numerous. The change of course, which will entail inevitable consequences also for the developers, has made the users of the users turn up the noseappcertain of the fact that the quality of the service will be affected by this sudden transition.
The plan by Meta is to cut costs by adopting a web wrapper, i.e. a solution that will allow you to manage web content with a system that actually reproduces the effects of a traditional native app. It is a strategy that is increasingly used by software companies, since it allows you to streamline the development phases and therefore to save: using Microsoft’s Edge WebView2 technology it will be possible to maintain a single code base and use a Web App More essential and less complex and expensive to manage.
As mentioned, the news triggered the discontent of the numerous users who continue to use the WHATSApp native app for Windows: to make the passage less traumatic less traumatic implemented of the new functions, such as channels, access to the community and state control, able to make the experience of using the program more and more similar to that of the mobile version.
However, despite the expansion of the functions and the simplification of the work for the developers, there is a painful note to be taken into account. The results of a series of tests carried out by experts on the new Web App of Whatsapp clearly show that it requires an effort higher than the system to be able to turn correctly, since we speak of the 30% more RAM memory. A percentage that is certainly not negligible, which will create heavy repercussions on users who usually use little performing PCs or that are used to use more applications simultaneously: we speak of almost a third of system resources in several requested by WhatsApp Web, so the slowdowns and the loss of fluidity will be the first inevitable consequences.
It is not yet known if the same fate will also have to suffer the app for Mac, but it seems that destination
is now going in that direction for fixed and portable PCs. The only exception seems currently represented by the iPad, for which the company has only recently, and after 16 years of waiting, starting the experimentation of a native app.