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> I wouldn't be surprised if the plan is to move all WhatsApp users to Messenger. People use WhatsApp over messenger primarily because how "light" the app feels
by ashraymalhotra 8y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the plan is to move all WhatsApp users to Messenger.
People use WhatsApp over messenger primarily because how "light" the app feels. It feels exactly like SMS for free, which was always the appeal of the app. Given the trend to make a Lite version of every Android app, Facebook should be prioritising WhatsApp, not planning to migrate it to Messenger.
PS - Has a mass migration of community from one product to the other ever been successfully pulled off?
- dmoy 8y agoDigg to Reddit? Ha. Probably not what you were asking, I assume you actually mean within the same company? Tencent did a reasonable job of migrating a lot of people to WeChat from QQ, but then again QQ is also still alive and used, so it wasn't a full/complete migration.
- dogma1138 8y agoWA doesn’t require a Facebook account if FB does that they’ll end up losing quite a bit of users.
- mcintyre1994 8y agoNor does Messenger.
- cornholio 8y agoThe convergence of the Messenger and Whatsapp communities is all but imminent despite strong internal resistance from the Whatsapp team. You don't need to migrate anything on the short run. The Whatsapp classic experience will probably remain the same for those who prefer the lite messenger, with the added feature of linking a Facebook account and talking to those people too. The heavy and encouraged experience will be Messenger, that already scours the phone book of those dumb enough to use it, and is perfectly positioned to talk to Whatsapp clients. The massive network effect this move will unlock cannot be ignored by Facebook. I'm sure Whatsapp's privacy features will suffer, but users don't value them.