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Because on average they only make about $0.05 per user per year [1]. I think they will struggle to grow that figure because messaging apps have very little loc
by MarkMc 11y ago
Because on average they only make about $0.05 per user per year [1]. I think they will struggle to grow that figure because messaging apps have very little lock-in. My friend John doesn't want to pay $1 to get WhatsApp? No problem - we can just use Telegram instead.
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/
- sesutton 11y agoAccording to those numbers each WhatsApp user was only worth $4.66 to Facebook. That means WhatsApp needs to add 3.3 billion users to be worth the extra $15 billion.