Some other advantages of WhatsApp over the native Messages app, relating to WhatsApp's Groups feature, besides the cross-platform compatibility, for some use-cases: I like the ability to create named groups whose members you can edit in WhatsApp. Unless I am missing something, using the native Messages app, you cannot edit who the conversation is being sent to without starting a new message thread containing a revised list of recipients. This has been really helpful to me when members have been added to a team I am on at a later date; we can just add them to the group, and they can see all messages that we sent before they joined, so they can more quickly get up to speed. Also in the native app, you cannot have names for groups as far as I know; messages just list all recipients when you're going through conversations. In WhatsApp, if you have created a group, the group name will show when you are going through your conversation list or when you have a conversation open, and, provided that the names and mobile numbers of group members are in your Contacts, you will also see names of individual senders when you are actually inside the thread and going through it. When you have a notification of a new message coming in, the native app just tells you that sender's name; if a message has been sent to a group you're part of in WhatsApp, the notification tells you both the group and the sender. This feature of named groups really helps me to be more organized and to more quickly know who I am communicating with (i.e., I might name a group after the specific team project we are working on, the specific organization we are heading, etc.).
Regards, Maria -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris H Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What 'sup with What'sapp? Not really Ray unless you have family and friends who do not use iOS devices. I use Whatsapp because I have friends who use Whatsapp on other platforms, like Android. E-mail Facebook and iMessage [email protected] On 16/10/2013 14:24, Ray T. Mahorney wrote: > fair point I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything. > > > Ray T. Mahorney > WA4WGA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Chris H > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:38 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: What 'sup with What'sapp? > > The main advantage of Whatsapp is that it's cross platform. Meaning > anyone with a Blackberry, a Nokia phone, a Windows phone or even an > Android phone can use Whatsapp. So no matter where the conversation begins, it is not tied to iOS devices unlike iMessage. > > E-mail Facebook and iMessage > [email protected] > > On 16/10/2013 10:34, Ray T. Mahorney wrote: >> The clever among you willhave caught the play on words. Now, what is >> it and what does it do that apps which are native to the device do not? >> >> >> Ray T. Mahorney >> WA4WGA >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
