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> But I do submit as evidence of my hypothesis that several social networks were successful on mobile without it (e.g. Twitter, Instagram and Facebook). All of
by pfg 11y ago
> But I do submit as evidence of my hypothesis that several social networks were successful on mobile without it (e.g. Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).
All of those examples use phone numbers as (at the very least) a secondary contact discovery mechanism on mobile. All but Instagram had existing user bases when they went into the mobile market. None of them are primarily a messaging app.
Do you have an example of a popular mobile messaging app without phone number-based contact discovery?
- lrei 11y agoDo you have an example of a popular mobile messaging app other than WhatsApp