Facebook Pulls BlackBerry Support

Facebook followed in the footsteps of WhatsApp and announced that it was discontinuing support for the BlackBerry platform.

Facebook followed in the footsteps of WhatsApp and announced that it was discontinuing support for the BlackBerry platform.

BlackBerry senior marketing manager, developer relations Lou Gazzola shared the news in a blog post:

The app landscape continues to evolve, and in ways that are not always within our control. Recently, Facebook made the decision to discontinue support of its essential APIs (application-programming interfaces) for BlackBerry, and WhatsApp announced that it would end support for BlackBerry 10 and BBOS at the end of 2016.

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