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People paid for WhatsApp before Facebook bought it and it was successfull. That is a fact spyware peddlers and their fanboys can't argue away. > Messengers are
by josefx 5y ago
People paid for WhatsApp before Facebook bought it and it was successfull. That is a fact spyware peddlers and their fanboys can't argue away.
> Messengers are a commodity product in terms of functionality.
They also where when whats app was a paid service. Yet the complaint against signal, etc. is that they are unusable because they are not nearly as full featured, hard to use and that people would rather continue to use WhatsApp for the network effect alone.
- thu2111 5y agoIt wasn't really paid. They claimed it was but everyone I know always got the charge waived, which makes sense when you learn it was only ever meant to be a scaling break (see my other comment).
- rerx 5y agoI paid that Euro a couple of times.
- thu2111 5y agoHuh, TIL! It'd be interesting to see what percentage of users got waivers vs charges over time.
- rerx 5y agoI found one charge of 0.89 Eur in April 2013. Probably the first year was free and then I paid once. Maybe they charged me just a single time after all. Quite a bargain to be honest (before the Facebook acquisition at least).