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>Aren’t we all skeptical? What’s the real value exactly. What's the value in the 7 billion Meta paid for WhatsApp?
by Cumpiler69 2y ago
>Aren’t we all skeptical? What’s the real value exactly.
What's the value in the 7 billion Meta paid for WhatsApp?
- high_na_euv 2y agoData
- Cumpiler69 2y agoSo then why doesn't this argument apply to AI? Why do people think AI is gonna be worthless?
- high_na_euv 2y agoWhatsApp is data generator AI feels more like data utilizer Sure, you can save the queries, but it aint much
- Cumpiler69 2y agoConsumers are drawn into your service by convenience. They'd much rather get their answer via a quick AI chat than swifitng through pages of your data. Yeah, data is valuable, but if consumers have no easy way to get what they want from it, it becomes useless.
- high_na_euv 2y agoYou answered your own question WhatsApp and AI Chats are different products.
- Cumpiler69 2y agoNo d'uh they're different products. I asked why people would think one is valuable and the other not?
- high_na_euv 2y agoThere can be many reasons e.g WhatsApp is way, way more reliable than LLMs
- scudsworth 2y agowhatsapp is an invaluable communication tool for large parts of the globe. the other is not essential for daily life for any person anywhere on the globe. i hope this helps, cum guy
- mgh2 2y agoWhatsApp when bought already had traction, Copilot seems forced
- bfrog 2y agoCopilot feels like I’m getting a personal health examination I didn’t ask for, need, or want.
- JohnFen 2y agoThere are different kinds of "worth". Many things are valuable from a monetary point of view, but largely worthless (or of negative worth) otherwise. And many other things are worthless from a monetary view, but of great value otherwise.
- salted_coffee 2y agoA lot of people use WhattsApp, especially outside the us. it is easily the greatest competitor to instagram in international markets.
- cainxinth 2y agoNitpick, but Facebook (Meta wasn’t a thing yet) paid $19b for WhatsApp.
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- snakeyjake 2y ago$19 billion for the single most popular service on the entire internet seems like a bargain and they just passed $1 billion in annual revenue last year. As an American, WhatsApp seemed like an odd fit with Facebook but I also travel internationally a great deal. Almost every single interaction I have while traveling anywhere that isn't Europe and North America, from coordinating airport pickups with drivers to requesting fresh towels from hotel staff, occurs via WhatsApp nowadays. It's actually really nice. I booked a dive in Belize earlier this year and all I did was scan a QR code of an ad I saw in the hotel, send them a screenshot of my NAUI app, sign a waiver from a link they sent me, then they sent a payment link, google maps directions, and instantly responded to my question when I couldn't find the right dock. All of this occurred on WhatsApp in the span of like 90 minutes. In the US the process IS NOT that smooth.