• Laser@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    WhatsApp built its user base on the promise of free messaging

    Really? Because initially, WhatsApp did actually charge money for the service, though it was only $1 a year. But I don’t remember them ever promising free messaging.

    Fun fact, WhatsApp wasn’t even designed as a messenger in the first place, it was just meant as an app to show your status (like “at the movies”), but then evolved into one.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah initially they may have been paid but the far majority of their base which is billions from 3rd world countries was built on the promise of free encrypted messaging, both which I’m expecting are going deteriorate terribly within a decade as had always been their long term plan.

    • tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      Yeah you’re responding to a bot whose instructions are to wax lyrically about OSS and anti-Google sentiment.