Precisely what I am saying... It shows as 1 outgoing (my phone) and if there are 10 people in the group each of them will have an incoming message... So 9 incoming messages...
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WhatsApp for iPhone Moving to Subscription Model Later This Year
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Precisely what I am saying... It shows as 1 outgoing (my phone) and if there are 10 people in the group each of them will have an incoming message... So 9 incoming messages...
i wish there was a mac version. its so annoying to reply to friend on your phone while u are actually on your laptop anyway
isnt it send to the "group" itself and people who join just happen to see whats written? so its technically just one
isnt it send to the "group" itself and people who join just happen to see whats written? so its technically just one
iMessage is good if all your friends have iPhones. But when you have international friends, a lot of them have BB, and Andriod phones but its free texting to international numbers. Oh and when iMessage fails and sends and international text.. it will be more than a dollar.
837 contacts..... hot damn McDawg your little black book is positively bulging at the seams
well considering i only use this to talk with one of my friends outside the US. i'll go and use facebook chat and its free.
Great App I would pay more than $1/ year if given the opportunity to do so
People expect everything for free.. so what if they decided to charge a lousy $1 a year.... I'll use iMessage sure every single person you know has an iPhone ...NOT
People expect everything for free.. so what if they decided to charge a lousy $1 a year.... I'll use iMessage
sure every single person you know has an iPhone ...NOTThis is perfectly reasonable. I think we're going to see more apps start to do this as the "one fee forever" method is not going to work long term. For all the use I get out of the app $1 seems very trivial.
iMessage is less of an attractive option if you are messaging people who are not on iOS.
iMessage is less of an attractive option if you are messaging people who are not on iOS.
Strange move.. subscription on anything (be it only $1) is a big influence on whether the majority of people will use the app. No one likes to "feel" locked into something even if its for $1.
Very simple - you use a service, you pay for it. $1 won't kill anyone, especially for something so useful.
Exactly what would this say about them?
To be technical, I said "contacts", not "friends"
Many of them are business contacts mixed in with friends, family, etc.
And apparently none of them feel the need for this app, and neither did I
I communicate mainly with my wife and kids through texting, and we all use iMessage
£.99 isnt a lot to pay yearly for whatsapp but its more the principle behind it. I initially bought the app as it offered me a lot of amazing features for a one off fee. Having to then be expected to pay a yearly subscription is somehow a breach of the original contract.
Anyhow having read further, it seems the subscription model only appllies to new users
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/18/4121940/whatsapp-for-ios-moving-to-subscription-model-this-year
Regarding those that say its only a pound/dollar, think about it, what if all apps then decide at some point to go the subscription route, will you still think its only .99p when been charged yearly for 99+ apps?
Anyhow having read further, it seems the subscription model only appllies to new users
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/18/4121940/whatsapp-for-ios-moving-to-subscription-model-this-year
Regarding those that say its only a pound/dollar, think about it, what if all apps then decide at some point to go the subscription route, will you still think its only .99p when been charged yearly for 99+ apps?
How can any one cry out over 1 dollar?
If you use it and is happy, pay up. If you hardly use it, then just delet it.
I hardly use it, but my wife and her friends use it all the time As they live in different countries
If you use it and is happy, pay up. If you hardly use it, then just delet it.
I hardly use it, but my wife and her friends use it all the time As they live in different countries
I'm sorry but your post doesn't really make sense. At first you're complaining that somehow the original contract was breached, then you accept that this only applies for new users, so it's not going to affect your contract anyway.
Even if they did start making it a subscription only service for everyone you could always opt out. It's really not a big deal
I and my wife have iPhones and many a times we cannot use iMessage for reasons totally unknown. But we use whatsapp in such scenarios when we realize iMessage is not working.
Also whatsapp compresses the pictures before sending which saves us from more bandwidth being used.
I stay in a country where EDGE still is used on a very large scale and in such cases sending a pic taken from iPhone 4S without compressing means hell lot of time taken to send and receive since each picture is few MBs.
Whatsapp compresses it to few KBs which makes it easier and faster.
Also whatsapp compresses the pictures before sending which saves us from more bandwidth being used.
I stay in a country where EDGE still is used on a very large scale and in such cases sending a pic taken from iPhone 4S without compressing means hell lot of time taken to send and receive since each picture is few MBs.
Whatsapp compresses it to few KBs which makes it easier and faster.
Same here, just two things I hate about it.
1) No native iPad app.
2) It is one account per device, thus if you have an iPhone and a iPad, you have to have TWO different accounts. (this seems common)
Positives.
1) Lots of free stickers (helps convey emotion, especially since not everyone in my family speaks the same language).
2) iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac, Blackberry, etc support.
3) Phone calls, group chats, video videos, and more.
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In the netherlands, this App is so popular, that providers tried to start charging seperate fees for using the data that's used by Whatsapp specifically. The government stepped in and didn't allow them to do so, since it's pretty unfair.
They tried to do the same with Skype, FB messenger, and Spotify. So yeah it really depends on where you are in the world.