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That sounds rather trivial to me. Facebook has a huge userbase and I'm sure that if they made FB Messenger run on J2ME as well, it would have massive uptake. Se
by yohanatan 13y ago
That sounds rather trivial to me. Facebook has a huge userbase and I'm sure that if they made FB Messenger run on J2ME as well, it would have massive uptake. Seems like Zuck just wanted to spread the love around a bit and generate some news (or has some serious lack of confidence in the competence of his own developers).
- aestra 13y agoA difference is you don't have to create a WhatsApp account, it just uses your phone number. It is plug and play.
- yohanatan 13y agoTrivial to implement.
- roel_v 13y agoYes, everything about WhatsApp is so trivial that Facebook with their billions and billionaires and 1000's of high-quality engineers decided to spend 18 Billion dollars on it. But of course they're all dumbasses because you say it's all 'trivial', right?
- yohanatan 13y agoI think it's pretty clear that Facebook didn't buy WhatsApp for the technology itself but rather the large market penetration/installed user base. Whether that was stupid or not is up for debate.