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> I don't think people thinking about tech really saw this coming: that chat apps would not just be successful at such large scale but also subsume VOIP Becaus
by w1ntermute 11y ago
> I don't think people thinking about tech really saw this coming: that chat apps would not just be successful at such large scale but also subsume VOIP
Because they couldn't have predicted how badly Skype would botch the transition to mobile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927899
As for e-commerce, that's still controlled by Amazon, not any chatting apps (at least in the West).
- firasd 11y agoYeah I was thinking in terms of the future, especially if FB integrates digital wallets like WeChat. Not the Amazon-like shopping part necessarily, but payments, talking to customers, stuff like that.