Tell HN: Please dont brick the app

An old friend of mine died of cancer on Sunday, alone in a Thai government hospital, with no family or friends around him, in a language he didn't really understand, it sad ending, it was not a dignified way to go. His only contact with the others in world in recent months has been WhatsApp which I setup when I visited him earlier in the year. He had expected to live several months but things took a turn for the worse and rapidly deteriorated over a few days. WhatsApp the buggers put an arbitrary time limit on the app between updates so he was locked out - confused and desperate (coupled with the morphine), I guess he had enough mentally. I presume his phone was never updating due to storage being near limit - tbf his phone was a mess and he was a technophobe, and since he never saved contacts just sent off the number I guess there was no record of his contacts in his main phone. I

Kind

startup

Status

Shut down

Inventor

sitepodmatt

Ended

2017

Source

hackernews