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Just an \u003Ciframe>. I wondered how they reverse engineered the security and worked around whatsapp's SSO…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"9758086","Brakenshire","I've just tried it, it works well. Barring the delay on opening, and a small delay on resizing, it seems like a native app on Elementary OS. Credit to WhatsApp for building an…",{"value":60,"source":49,"evidence":61},"WhatsApp users who want a desktop app",[62,63],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"9758255","Nux","Cool, I don't need to run Chrome for this. BTW, you should release some generic binary tarballs, those debs work just fine on CentOS\u002FFedora if you unpack them. No…",{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"Make notifications work and integrate better with the OS","commenter",[71],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"9759307","aluxian","Hey, everyone, I'm the dev. First of all, thanks to @halfimmortal for posting this, I've just stumbled upon it. It's my first time on the front page ^^ I didn't realise using the…",[76,80],{"value":77,"source":69,"evidence":78},"NW.js",[79],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},{"value":81,"source":69,"evidence":82},"WhatsApp Web",[83],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":88,"objections":97,"requests":125,"questions":155,"alternatives":174},[89,93],{"value":90,"source":69,"evidence":91},"Feels like a native app and is useful as a standalone window",[92],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"value":94,"source":69,"evidence":95},"Works well on Linux",[96],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},[98,109,117],{"value":99,"source":69,"evidence":100},"Name infringes WhatsApp trademark and could be confused with an official app",[101,105],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"9757774","DanielStraight","> You're probably going to need to deal with the WhatsApp legal team very soon. And for good reason. Remember that trademarks are a consumer protection policy to avoid confusion.…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"9757814","Vespasian","Pretty much this. There are cases where trademarks are defended overly aggressive (e.g. recently IMAX vs arstechnica) but in this case a regular person could reasonably assume…",{"value":110,"source":69,"evidence":111},"Does not work on iOS",[112,116],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"9757696","Amaresh","Doesn't work if you have an iOS device.",{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":118,"source":69,"evidence":119},"Only a thin wrapper around web.whatsapp.com with no added value",[120,121],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"9758824","RX14","I see no advantage over using the --app flag on chrome. 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It's kind of ridiculous there web app only works on one platform.",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"9758570","jaboutboul","still no ios support...",{"value":149,"source":69,"evidence":150},"Combine WhatsApp and Messenger into one app",[151],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"9759026","ecesena","I saw also the fb messenger for desktop - absolutely great! One suggestion though, I definitely prefer 1 single app to catch all my IMs, like adium on Mac... I'd definitely…",[156,164],{"value":157,"source":69,"evidence":158},"What advantage does it have over a browser tab or Chrome --app mode?",[159,163],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"9757711","fla","Is it a wrapper around https:\u002F\u002Fweb.whatsapp.com\u002F ? 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