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In 2015, when WhatsApp had ~1B active users, Facebook said that the overall revenue from it was insignificant enough they they were just making it free. I'm pre

by paxy 8y ago

In 2015, when WhatsApp had ~1B active users, Facebook said that the overall revenue from it was insignificant enough they they were just making it free. I'm pretty sure it wasn't charging the vast majority of users (which is how it got popular in developing countries in the first place).

lucb1e 8y ago
> Facebook said that the overall revenue from it was insignificant enough they they were just making it free Have you considered that Facebook might not be telling the whole truth? "insignificant" compared to what, how much money Facebook makes off of every extra user (who wouldn't want to pay) on their platform? Making it free can only be a profitable move because of what Facebook could do with the data, not because a few million dollars a year is truly "insignificant".