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Initially WhatsApp (before Facebook acquisition) had a (cheap!) one time fee.
by PetitPrince 6y ago
Initially WhatsApp (before Facebook acquisition) had a (cheap!) one time fee.
- leephillips 6y agoOh, I guess I was late to the party.
- RobertoG 6y agoI think that was only true for the Apple store, not for Android.
- vxNsr 6y agoAnd then it was an annual fee, of $1 billed to your cell service provider, people had a much easier time parting with $1 at some future point on their cellphone bill which anyways is dynamic vs $1 now in the app. for the team size the projected amount they’d make was fine. iirc it had like 500mil users and less than 50 ppl in the company.