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Why is WhatsApp special? iMessages is used a lot outside US. Why is there a “messenger war”? Like what’s the end game? Why do you want people using your free m
by onethought 4y ago
Why is WhatsApp special? iMessages is used a lot outside US.
Why is there a “messenger war”? Like what’s the end game? Why do you want people using your free messages product? Data? But e2e encryption and privacy are primary features… I don’t get it
- remus 4y ago> Why is there a “messenger war”? Like what’s the end game? Why do you want people using your free messages product? Data? But e2e encryption and privacy are primary features… I don’t get it Messenger apps have powerful network effects. Imagine all your friends are on iPhone and use iMessage, if you're the only android user in that circle you're getting a degraded experience so there's a strong incentive to move to iphone which means more sales for apple.
- onethought 4y agoSo that makes sense for Apple. But it doesn't make sense for literally every other messenger app. Why do they bother existing? (i.e 1 billion people use Messenger X, is the game plan that some one else with an actual business model wants those billion users so they buy it... so Messenger apps are a marketing channel?)
- mainfield 4y agoFor WhatsApp/Facebook the business model is: access to your contacts
- winnie_ua 4y agoAnd I am so confused, that nobody is bothered with it, and so many users of whatsapp. I really distrust Signal for it forcing to add contacts only by phone, not hy sone user ids/nick-names
- dwaite 4y agoAt first messaging was a draw to have people use the portal (AOL, ICQ, MSN). Later, they tried to sell the apps as another banner slot. The more recent bout has their own services in messaging itself; bots to provide enterprise-specific functions to Slack, payment and marketplace tie-ins to Messenger.