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Wasn't it $1 per year before Facebook bought them?

• jonasdegendt 5y ago
  I believe so, but wasn't it much like the Winrar license where nobody was actually forced to pay at the end of the day?
  • Jensson 5y ago
    It was free for the first year iirc, and then a dollar a year. A dollar a year is way more than needed to cover the cost of hosting, and most would spend that to avoid paying for SMS.
    • pradn 5y ago
      They ended up with a billion or two users. $1-2 billion with the subscription is good for a company of a few dozen employees. They could have branched into all sorts of value-add stuff in the future if they wanted to, all without tracking and such even. A simple payments or shopping interface a la Instagram Stores could have done the trick.