Finally a word of reason. Thanks
I agree. If you have a car, and something in the engine doesn't work, then you would go to the dealership to get it repaired, but you don't go buy a new car, simply because something in your car that has worked before, doesn't work.
The producer of the device (iPhone 3G Apple) and whatsapp should be working together, to ensure that whichever whatsapp version that the 3G customers are ALREADY using, still works.
Otherwise, they are just trying to hold their customer's hostage, by getting them dependent on their product, and force them to keep buying, whether it's to get a new 4G, 5G, 5S, '7X' , '8Z' or whatever applications there are out there (whether it's whatsapp, viber etc). It won't just end with 3G and this outdated whatsapp version.
In the recent past, the telecom corporations have exhausted capacity production of wireline systems and wireless systems , in other words no one really needs an additional landline phone in their home or an additional cell phone. So they can't get more money out of that anymore.
That's why now they are eyeing on 'content' (that's all these applications), to allow them to make newer cell phones more and more attractive. That keeps their revenue machine going and the money pouring in. Their market especially are teenagers who still haven't figured out how the businesses of big corporations work and get attracted by anything that's shiny and cool. The older generations are sufficient with just voice calls, voice mail and a bit of texting, so they are not an attractive market for the corporations.
The big telecom corporations are just trying to build a market that's getting more and more dependent on 'content'. That's why they are producing newer and much better cellphones, with more and more sophisticated clutter (*applications), that the teenagers are attracted to and feel like a 'not-to-be-missed' necessity.
That all is not really a bad thing, in the name of technology progress and to simplify and speed up everything in telecommunication and information processing.
But it's bad , if they take a way their customer's choice between keeping the old device or buying a new one.
There are lots of people out there who own vintage cars that are 10 or 20 years old.