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I wouldn't say he's in his own bubble. Each of those companies has a good head start of 100's of millions of DAILY ACTIVE users + apps that actually are great a
by corry 13y ago
I wouldn't say he's in his own bubble. Each of those companies has a good head start of 100's of millions of DAILY ACTIVE users + apps that actually are great at what they do.
Could Facebook still enter? Sure, but they've bought a few other messaging apps and done basically nothing with them.
Could a fresher startup come in? Sure, you can never discount that. But the listed messaging apps are (a) not a zero sum game / mutually exclusive, and (b) already have a huge head start.
- kawera 13y ago(a) not a zero sum game / mutually exclusive This is a very important aspect. Like many others, I have friends using different messaging apps and it costs me almost nothing to have all of then running alongside each other.
- bad_user 13y agoFacebook's Messenger for Android is pretty good and when I write messages with it, people reply. This is why I think the Whatsapp acquisition makes no sense, unless it was a defensive move.
- pjmlp 13y agoI also did not understand it. First of all, if it wasn't for the aquisition I wouldn't even be aware Whatsapp exists, as none of my friends uses it. Second, a messaging application used to be a standard exercise to be done during network programming classes in my CS degree, so no big technical challenge to solve.