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> If every user paid $5 a month, Facebook's shareholders would do fabulously well. > But of course, that's a ridiculous proposition. Only an infinitesimal numb
by eitland 9y ago
> If every user paid $5 a month, Facebook's shareholders would do fabulously well.
> But of course, that's a ridiculous proposition. Only an infinitesimal number of Facebook's 2.2 billion users are willing to pay for the service.
Well, at least some tens of millions of users seemed to be happy about the idea to pay USD 1 a year for WhatsApp.
They were running this operation with something like 50 engineers so it should have been really profitable.
Then came Facebook...
- lrem 9y agoWhatsApp without any server-side storage nor content discovery? These are primary requirements towards a social network and they'll cost more than another dollar to fulfil.
- Tepix 9y agoYou can rent a dedicated server for less than $10/month that has enough resources for an estimated 100+ users. Heavy users that upload a large amount of data (videos, pictures) may be willing to pay more than casual users.
- eitland 9y agoSeems some people disagree but I think you are right. All chats I've been in on Telegram and Whatsapp over the last few years could be stored in a few gigabytes of disk space. How would I know? I've had a look at what Telegram and WhatsApp stores on my phone.