{"id":646031,"date":"2013-03-08T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=364206"},"modified":"2013-03-08T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T03:22:19","slug":"blackberry-z10-getting-whatsapp-starting-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646031","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Z10 getting WhatsApp starting next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/blackberry-z10-whatsapp-release-date-364206\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/bgr-img_00162.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"BlackBerry Z10 WhatsApp\" title=\"BlackBerry 10 Apps\" \/><\/a><\/center>BlackBerry&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/30\/blackberry-10-app-market-analysis-312057\/\">app problem<\/a> is about to get a little less severe. BlackBerry social media manager Alex Kinsella on Thursday posted an update to his Twitter account &#8220;predicting&#8221; that BlackBerry Z10 users will &#8220;be downloading WhatsApp&#8221; within the next week. Having WhatsApp on BlackBerry 10 is <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/08\/23\/whatsapp-stats-10-billion-messages\/\">an important win for the new BlackBerry platform both because of its popularity in emerging markets<\/a> and because it may help offset the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/blackberry-unlimited-bbm-analysis-340654\/\">impending loss of unlimited BlackBerry Messenger services in certain key markets<\/a>. All that said, BlackBerry still has a long way to go when it comes to attracting top apps to its platform, especially in light of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/netflix\">Netflix&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=nflx\">NFLX<\/a>) confirmation this week that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/netflix-blackberry-10-app-359561\/\">it has no plans to make an app for BlackBerry 10<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/MxYIwqoRaKo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry&#8217;s (BBRY) app problem is about to get a little less severe. BlackBerry social media manager Alex Kinsella on Thursday posted an update to his Twitter account &#8220;predicting&#8221; that BlackBerry Z10 users will &#8220;be downloading WhatsApp&#8221; within the next week. Having WhatsApp on BlackBerry 10 is an important win for the new BlackBerry platform both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}