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It's gonna eventually come. Billion user services just don't pay for themselves. I don't say this to defend Facebook, because if even they sell it, the next p
by jgalt212 6y ago
It's gonna eventually come. Billion user services just don't pay for themselves. I don't say this to defend Facebook, because if even they sell it, the next person down the line will still be faced with the same monetization issues.
- schmorptron 6y agoWeren't they profitable when they were charging 1€ a year per user before? I wouldn't mind going back to that.
- ascar 6y agoYea. I also find it hard to believe that WhatsApp wouldn't be profitable with $1 per user per year. There is a lot you can do with $2bil a year. I think I read that Brian Acton called out Sandberg on that once. That it wasn't just about profitability, but greed.
- eznzt 6y agoThey were supposedly charging that, but the first year was free, and then every time you were close to running out of free time you would get x more free months. I chained those free months for years until it became completely free. So it was actually free to use.
- mnd999 6y agoSo go back to charging a small fee. People used to pay it and with the network effect they still would.
- tmerse 6y agoWhatsApp used to have paying customers.
- Nextgrid 6y agoFacebook and Whatsapp can absolutely exist and sustain itself if accounts were paid and cost a couple dollars per month.
- helloguillecl 6y agoHow about actually paying for the product, like it was when I signed up?
- headsupernova 6y agopublic utility time!