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> If WhatsApp went down without a long transition process first The transition mechanism is that your contacts are in your phone address book, and you can call
by toast0 2mo ago
> If WhatsApp went down without a long transition process first
The transition mechanism is that your contacts are in your phone address book, and you can call or text them or find them on other platforms indexed by phone number. Although, not for username contacts.
Would it be disruptive? Yes. Would it be world ending? No.
- TFNA 2mo agoThat is all well and good for individuals chatting with family, friends or small groups. But alot of small businesses all over the world are using WhatsApp for Business with features and data storage that cannot be immediately moved to another platform. If it disappeared tomorrow, you would see business failures and immediate economic impact in developing-world regions that can hardly afford such a hit.
- upboundspiral 2mo agoThis is trivial to solve. Launch two parallel cases. One against Meta top execs for criminal behavior, the other one as antitrust against Meta for abusing their market position. Two cases at once gives you negotiating power and clearly signals that you're serious about curtailing their influence. Ideally this results in jail time for Meta execs, but at a minimum divesting them of Whatsapp should be achievable. By the end you should be able to get Meta's businesses operating independently under new leadership.
- graemep 2mo agoThat is something that should concern those countries. It means their economies are extremely vulnerable to even light US sanctions.
- gopher_space 2mo agoWelcome to capitalism.