{"id":77973,"date":"2015-01-21T21:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=77973"},"modified":"2015-01-21T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:59:42","slug":"whatsapp-launches-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77973\/whatsapp-launches-on-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is coming to the desktop in the form of a web client for Chrome and Android, the company <a title=\"http:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/614\/WhatsApp-Web\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/614\/WhatsApp-Web\" target=\"_blank\">announced on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The web app connects to the WhatsApp client running on your phone, and requires that your phone be online to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device \u2014 this means all of your messages still live on your phone,\u201d WhatsApp said in its announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Support for more browsers will be coming soon, though iOS users should not hold out hope that they will be able to use the web client any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, for now we will not be able to provide the web client to our iOS users due to Apple platform limitations,\u201d WhatsApp said.<\/p>\n<p>You can give the web client a go yourself at<a title=\"https:\/\/web.whatsapp.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/web.whatsapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the app&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on WhatsApp<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to WhatsApp, BBM messages are legally binding in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/75368\/whatsapp-bbm-messages-are-legally-binding-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp, BBM messages are legally binding in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The most popular messaging platforms\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/76795\/the-most-popular-messaging-platforms\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The most popular messaging platforms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is coming to the desktop in the form of a web client for Chrome and Android, the company announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":46020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,2118],"class_list":["post-77973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77975,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77973\/revisions\/77975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}