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There is no value in collecting social graph data on owners of $20 phones.

• jopsen 9y ago
  It's a long play... Being the defacto messaging system in a country like India is certainly a position worth protecting.
  • emj 9y ago
    But for how long.. IM apps come and go.
    • mcny 9y ago
      That's the big question that I think Facebook spends billions of dollars protecting: can we make IM users stick? I think at some point, it becomes sticky if a huge part of the population has it. So I don't think Facebook will try to shut down this guy. He is doing free work for them.
      • veli_joza 9y ago
        Allow me to repeat my comment from above: he could read/modify/inject arbitrary chat content. He could embed ads into Whatsapp interface. Lots of tech companies are trying to 'build for next billion', but this is clearly not the way forward.