Last Wednesday marked the eighteenth anniversary of the Open Handset Alliance's announcement: on November 5, 2007, 34 mobile carriers, phone manufacturers, and chipmakers committed to adopting Android, "the first fully open platform for mobile devices." release It didn't explain that Android had existed since 2003—initially designed for digital cameras, not phones—nor that Google had bought it in 2005 for around $50 million, which then-Vice President David Lawee would later call "Google's best purchase." It also failed to mention that the announcement came 10 months after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone.

WhatsApp has announced a new update of its compatibility requirements on May 5th, the first since three years ago. The change will require users to upgrade their mobile phones if they want to continue using the instant messaging app. The phones affected by the company's standards update are all running on iOS, i.e., Apple's operating system.