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All they had to do was keep focused on their actual demographic (high-end office workers), allow their other demographic (drug dealers / buyers), and let everyo
by goatinaboat 5y ago
All they had to do was keep focused on their actual demographic (high-end office workers), allow their other demographic (drug dealers / buyers), and let everyone else worry about consumers
If they had opened up BBM, WhatsApp would never have happened.
- joshspankit 5y agoOoooo right! I had forgotten about BBM! It was just at exactly the right point in history: it was better than the rest in some ways, had great FOMO, SMS was super expensive, and I don't think anyone else had real-time messaging on mobile when they first did. Yes: I think they could have eaten the market until the iPhone, and Apple would have been playing catch-up to BB.