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It's amazing how they blew it. I remember, back in the day they were dominant messaging platform. And now they are relic of the past, while WhatsApp was purchas

by fluxem 10y ago

It's amazing how they blew it. I remember, back in the day they were dominant messaging platform. And now they are relic of the past, while WhatsApp was purchased for $19 billions. All of this because they missed mobile revolution.

amedvednikov 10y ago
And because they were too greedy with their annoying ads.
Tepix 10y ago
A 4 person team getting $400 million after a few years is "blowing it"?
- chris_wot 10y ago
  From my perspective the "they" being referenced is AOL.
  - empath75 10y ago
    They blew so many things but basically the problem is that after the time warner deal, time warner just bled them dry, hoarding all the dialup money and refusing to invest in anything.
kalleboo 10y ago
From where I sat, they lost long before the mobile revolution - people were already annoyed by the bloated ICQ client full of stupid games and ads, and then Microsoft killed them by bundling MSN with Windows (and then MSN Messenger bloated up and added ads...) This was so long ago I remember running a ICQ J2ME app on a 2G GSM phone