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The post didn't ease my concerns either. To further extend your last point, I don't understand why FB would spend so much acquiring whataspp if they didn't plan
by JTon 13y ago
The post didn't ease my concerns either. To further extend your last point, I don't understand why FB would spend so much acquiring whataspp if they didn't plan to mine the data. I told my friends to expect targeted FB ads based on our whatsapp convos in the future.
- lpgauth 13y ago95% of WhatApp's messages don't event hit a disk and are served from memory. It would take big architectural changes to be able to mine them. (info from the erlang factory slides)
- JTon 13y agoThat's an interesting stat. How do you think FB will get an ROI on the 19B ? EDIT: Also, do you think FB would/could man-in-the-middle the traffic a la NSA? No architectural changes to whatsapp are needed. FB could save and fwd the traffic. Crunch later.
- sirkneeland 13y agoIt could be the difficult to quantify ROI of strategic benefit from keeping it out of the hands of Apple, Google, MSFT, etc
- aryastark 13y ago$19B, to keep competition at bay, rather than use it to innovate? When your main product is advertising? Silicon Valley is circling the drain...
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- huslage 13y agoSee Microsoft and Skype for proof that lots of resources fixes these "problems" quickly.