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How much money is it? I remember WhatsApp being £1/year, or something like that.
by Symbiote 6y ago
How much money is it?
I remember WhatsApp being £1/year, or something like that.
- BoorishBears 6y agoLol people didn't even want to pay that much, it wouldn't ask for that dollar/pound until you'd used it for a year, and most people would ignore the message when it came up Usually it'd just keep working anyways
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- hawk_ 6y agoyes but was that enough to cover the costs even then?
- ForHackernews 6y agoProbably. WhatsApp famously supported over a billion users with <100 engineers: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us... Prior to Facebook acquisition, WhatsApp was a fantastic engineering effort. I don't know if it's now sunk down to normal FB standards or if they're still good.
- jlokier 6y agoIt might be enough to cover costs, but it's not enough to outweigh the amount Facebook can make by using everyone's data.
- PeterisP 6y agoFacebook can get much more than £1/year ARPU from Whatsapp being privacy-invasive, so charging a price like that isn't competitive. We don't have good numbers from Whatsapp alone, but Facebook earns more than 150 $/year for each US/Canada user on average; and users who are willing to pay for such services probably are worth more than average, so an adequate replacement for invasive ad targeting would be quite a large monthly fee.