> WhatsApp grew to its size because of its first mover advantage Whaaaat? There were plenty of chat apps before WhatsApp that were free. > WhatsApp squandered

> WhatsApp grew to its size because of its first mover advantage Whaaaat? There were plenty of chat apps before WhatsApp that were free. > WhatsApp squandered their early lead with slow development Mmm, the story that _I_ have been told is that WhatsApp was prevented from getting any better because the desire was to get people to move to Messenger. This has been a reasonably effective strategy, although I note their are markets (like Thailand) where everybody just switched to Line instead