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> the new service will be pay to use in order to generate revenue. In which case, nobody outside Europe would use it. In which case, barely anyone inside Europe
by CGamesPlay 5y ago
> the new service will be pay to use in order to generate revenue. In which case, nobody outside Europe would use it. In which case, barely anyone inside Europe would use it.
WhatsApp previously was a paid app and had 500 million paying users.
- darkwizard42 5y agoTechnically... yes. But the $1/year was AFAIK not enough to cover costs.
- caterama 5y agoInteresting, so this is a lower bound on the value of your data!
- Spivak 5y agoI mean you can look up what companies make on you in their financial reports. Pinterest as an example makes about <$10 per user per year from ads.
- Leherenn 5y agoIt was only after the first year. And there were ways to bypass it if I remember correctly.
- JetSpiegel 5y agoWhat? They had like, < 100 engineers.
- rrdharan 5y agoIt had 315M DAU: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/whatsapp-hits-1-5-billion-monthly-users-19b-not-so-bad/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/whatsapp-hits-1-5-billion-...
- CGamesPlay 5y agoDAU doesn't really matter when you aren't selling attention, the number of paying customers is what matters. TC lists 450 MAU, and this article is where i got the 500 million figure from, which is also listed as MAU [0]. [0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/032515/whatsapp-best-facebook-purchase-ever.asp https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/032515/whats...