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Wasn't WhatsApp both a pay-once and privacy first messaging app? It then changed at the sound of dollar signs. What's different here?
by moritonal 6y ago
Wasn't WhatsApp both a pay-once and privacy first messaging app?
It then changed at the sound of dollar signs.
What's different here?
- hutattedonmyarm 6y agoThreema is Open Source and didn’t get bought by Facebook. Also, was WhatsApp ever super privacy friendly? They weren’t Facebook level bad, but I don’t remember them being specifically targeted towards privacy
- dbrgn 6y agoBack when Threema was founded, WhatsApp was still blasting messages in plaintext through your WiFi, where the other people sitting next to you in Starbucks could read along. I don't ever recall WhatsApp as being privacy friendly.
- AnonC 6y agoDepending on the country, WhatsApp was “pay once a year” or free. I don’t understand how a service that requires online resources and maintenance can charge a one-time fee and be done with it, more so considering that this one says it’s based out of (expensive) Switzerland.
- dbrgn 6y agoThere are also enterprise offerings with recurring payments: https://work.threema.ch/ https://work.threema.ch/ If you take a look at the customer list (Daimler with 300k employees, Bosch with 400k employees, the federal administration of Switzerland, and others) it does seem to be quite a sustainable business model. (Edit: Added note about customer list)