WhatsApp race for catch up with competing instant messaging services It has undoubtedly become a marathon, at least in terms of its duration. But let’s do a little history to understand it better. We had just launched 2021 when Meta, at that time still Facebook, announced a more than controversial change in the conditions of use of the service. The response from many users was immediate, in a “migratory” movement in which the main beneficiary was Telegram. WhatsApp maintained its first position in this market, but we can say that it saw the ears of the wolf and, since then, has stepped on the accelerator when it comes to adding new features and improving existing ones.
Thus, practically constantly since then, we have been able to see that every few weeks they surprise us with a new function. Although, if we are honest, we must point out that many of them were already present in other services, which is why what Meta has done is try to provide its users with a more complete service, to try to prevent them from tempted to jump to another platform. for their functions. Nothing new under the sun, really, and totally understandable.
We have the latest example of this as close as this week, when WhatsApp confirmed that the same account can now be used on several smartphones. I will not say that this was the most awaited function by users, but at least that was among the three most in demand historically in service. In this case, and we’ve seen it in others as well, tests can take longer than you might imagine/expect, but it seems that Meta wants to make sure they arrive mature enough, which is welcome.
Well, when there are still users who do not know about this new function, we find another novelty, also very interesting, in WABetainfo, and that is WhatsApp is already testing the synchronization of chats through the local networkIn other words, without the need for them to make the round trip to the cloud, which is the normal method but is terribly inefficient, considering that both devices can be physically separated by less than a meter.
The function, which has been detected in WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.9.19 It is not available, at least for the moment, for all users who have it, so we can deduce that WhatsApp has opted for a fairly limited initial deployment, probably to collect as much feedback as possible about its operation before scaling its reach. . This seems quite sensible, given the nature of the data being transmitted in this process.
There is no sign, at the moment, about whether this function will also come to iOS, although technically there is nothing that prevents it, so we can hope that it will. But for now we will have to wait to have more information on dates, scope and others.
