[P4u1]

Don't you get it? It's a mobile app, which performs really well(hence no cloud storage I guess) and is associated with your phone, your phone is and will be the most important thing for whatsapp, the web thing is just a convenience for while you're at your laptop or desktop, like working and stuff, I find it awesome, it's a lot more productive then picking up the phone. I don't mind it requires having my phone connected to the web, it is all times, that's the point o whatsapp.

[alimbada]

It's the one missing feature of WhatsApp that I personally have been wanting for a very long time so they have at least one happy customer with this... or they would if they'd hurry up and update the iOS client to to work with this. :)

[josteink]

My wife just got an tablet and she absolutely loves it. She now uses it for absolutely everything she used to use her smart-phone for (except phone-calls I guess).

She can't understand why she has to pick up the phone to use Whatsapp. Her solution has been to just use Facebook messenger instead.

That was my reaction as well when I considered whatsapp: Why would I sign up for a IM service which only works on my phone?

You may play this as a strength, but for a considerable amount of the user-base it seems like a pointless limitation. And the user-base sees that every other competitor offers this feature, and to them whatsapp is suddenly no longer that interesting.

[Joona]

Not really. I want a replacement for Skype (just for text chat). That includes desktop.