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Not at all? WhatsApp has a phenomenal engineering team from what I have read.
by jmhobbs 12y ago
Not at all? WhatsApp has a phenomenal engineering team from what I have read.
- timtamboy63 12y agoThey do - but Facebook didn't buy Whatsapp for the technology. They bought them for the users. If the technology was absolutely horrible, but they still had the same users, etc, it still would have been $19B
- api 12y agoI didn't say it was bad, just that it wasn't the primary asset that was acquired. Facebook could easily have built a massively cross platform mobile chat app in-house. ... and it wasn't the best, either... look up their single hard-coded AES key for example.
- marco1 12y agoFully agree. Same is true for Poke/Snapchat. And WhatsApp was also using plain HTTP for a long time.