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i will make a wild guess and assume it has to do w/ legacy in their internal system most likely their internal system can only think in telephone numbers or so
by andreasklinger 10y ago
i will make a wild guess and assume it has to do w/ legacy in their internal system
most likely their internal system can only think in telephone numbers or something like that
- cheez 10y agoWhatsApp was bought for $19 billion. You could probably pay $1 billion and get a couple of different systems that worked well enough to replace WhatsApp.
- mst 10y agoHaving read the engineering posts about their core systems I think you're being wildly optimistic in the same way as people who think "writing a general CMS can't be that hard, I'll just write my own" are.
- jdavis703 10y agoYou could build 17.2 WhatsApps for $1 billion, assuming that it took nothing more and nothing less than the $58 million in funding they raised: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp#/entity.
- cheez 10y agoYup, that's why I said a couple. You could afford 17, but only 2 of those would be suitable.
- charlesdm 10y agoThe $19 billion paid wasn't for their amazingly well engineered system, it was for their massive user base.