[Hackbraten]

It takes more than two days to develop and roll out a new product. That goes for kitchen appliances, too.

[jokersarewild]

I don't think the claim was that the commercial device never existed but that it was too obscure for the friend to randomly independently get targeted ads about it..

But I don't think WhatsApp takes many steps to protect media and in many cases the user really wants to backup media or share in other apps, etc, over security for media.