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I see vertical integration increasingly as the only viable Big Tech strategy. Chat apps have existed since the early internet, but never one as popular as Whats

by ipnon 6y ago

I see vertical integration increasingly as the only viable Big Tech strategy. Chat apps have existed since the early internet, but never one as popular as WhatsApp that can make payments. The outcome if this trend were to persist would be a small group of WeChat style omni apps.

samfisher83 6y ago
If Fb could have turned Whatsapp into WeChat they would have increased their market cap a few 100 billion.
- ta17711771 6y ago
  What do you think they're (slowly, to avoid antitrust attention) doing? Game streaming, dating, selling used shit, payments, workplace "social" platform, video hosting&subscribing, etc. They're on their way.
  - pintxo 6y ago
    ... to become AOL
- Lammy 6y ago
  But that’s already their Messenger play :v