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Facebook Buying Messaging App WhatsApp for $16 Billion
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I don't use any Facebook services.
Flickr, iMessage/SMS, and email are sufficient.
Well there is two problem with this. 1) You are limited to mostly text, no multimedia pictures, video etc. 2) Just because it's free for you (or free a small fee) it's not the same case for everybody.
Facebook will need new companies considering their own is becoming more and more unpopular. i don't even have it on my phone anymore, check it once a week if that.
NOOOOOO !!!! I loved my independent WhatsApp.
just waiting for the "do u want to integrate your contacts" button
on the brightside ... maybe they will finally release a whatsapp edition for the mac
its mostly an american thing i guess cuz it is very popular in the rest of the world. 137 of my 143 contacts have whatsapp while only have of those have an iPhone and another half doesnt use facebook (parents for example)
just waiting for the "do u want to integrate your contacts" button
on the brightside ... maybe they will finally release a whatsapp edition for the mac
its mostly an american thing i guess cuz it is very popular in the rest of the world. 137 of my 143 contacts have whatsapp while only have of those have an iPhone and another half doesnt use facebook (parents for example)
I use iMessage for one on one chats with most of my friends, SMS for one on one with the few people who lack iDevices, and Facebook for group chats. I see absolutely no need for anything else.
It's interesting that Facebook thinks this app is so valuable:
With only 450 M users, Facebook has just paid $35 / user.
The number of $$ is absurdpure madness.
I have no idea why on earth somebody would even use whats app, viber & company, when you have imessage, normal sms and fb chat-which is also cross platform and makes this aqusition even dumber
Dumb? Didn't you read about the 400 million whatsapp users?
I'm not saying this cannot go the wrong way for Facebook but the potential is tremendous.
Personally I am on the lookout for an alternative already. Line chat is nice too but I don't know too many people using it.
Well give some company credit for going out there and taking a risk and putting forth a large chunk of money to purchase a big company, unlike some other companies *cough cough* (apple). Apple needs to step their game and purchase a big company like Twitter. I can even imagine what Twitter is valued at if whatsapp if 16 billion dollars.
If that's that way of getting around with the cross platform issues/international. But Whatsapp was out much longer before Facebook message. So a lot of people have long adopted whatsapp, and it works well so there isn't a point to switch.
Serious question: Other than iMessage being iOS only, how are they inferior? I just looked over WhatsApp and thought, yep, everything in there is covered by iMessage...
The old problem with people having too much money.
I wasn't even buying WhatsApp when it was 99¢ and these idiots pay $16b.
I wasn't even buying WhatsApp when it was 99¢ and these idiots pay $16b.