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Disclaimer: I was at Mozilla working on FxOS and then at KaiOS where I worked with the WhatsApp team to add some apis they needed. The problem was never techni
by fabrice_d 1y ago
Disclaimer: I was at Mozilla working on FxOS and then at KaiOS where I worked with the WhatsApp team to add some apis they needed.
The problem was never technical, only business. WhatsApp was basically saying: "We'll build an app if we think we can get XY millions new users". FxOS was just not shipping enough to reach the bar. KaiOS shipped in India with Jio, Facebook saw the traffic coming from KaiOS devices using the basic FB app and decided to move forward with a WhatsApp app.
- rickdeckard 1y agoThanks for the share. I was involved in this from another direction back then. You're right, the userbase was the deciding factor, but also in context of the required effort to support the development/maintenance. To my knowledge WhatsApp did a cost-estimation for FFOS-support back then and concluded that they need to see more than just sales projections to start working...