Joyn, the "WhatsApp killer" is not well received by Apple

This week is taking place in Barcelona Mobile World Congress 2012, which brings together major international telephone operators and mobile manufacturers. A large-scale event in which Apple never makes an appearance, but the Cupertino company has just always somehow or other, still on everyone's lips. This year, one of the star products is the application of MWC Joyn, driven by Vodafone and is born as an alternative telephone operators and applications such as WhatsApp IMessage.

These messaging applications have done great damage to the operators, who have had no choice but to put up with the price of text messages and launch its own alternative: Joyn, supported by industry manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, Sony, HTC and LG and carriers such as Orange, Vodafone and Movistar. This application would allow us to do almost the same as WhatsApp: chat and send files through our smartphones, but with the strength to come installed on the terminals that we buy.

And that's precisely where Apple has said no: Joyn should be available in the App Store, like any other third party application, and not as a native application is not made ​​by Apple.

Source: The Information .