> If WhatsApp was subscription based, I am sure they could not have achieved this scale. And I wouldn't have found value in it. WhatsApp dropped its $1 annual

> If WhatsApp was subscription based, I am sure they could not have achieved this scale. And I wouldn't have found value in it. WhatsApp dropped its $1 annual subscription fee just this year: https://blog.whatsapp.com/615/Making-WhatsApp-free-and-more-useful https://blog.whatsapp.com/615/Making-WhatsApp-free-and-more-...