WhatsApp Rolls Out Events Planning Feature for All Group Chats

jlc1978 said:
it really depends what app the people you need to communicate with regularly. No matter how good an app is if you can’t communicate with it it is useless.
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Yeah, we would only be able to do that if they force the interoperability between messaging apps
 
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Now those are thin bezels!!!
 
Populus said:
Yeah, we would only be able to do that if they force the interoperability between messaging apps
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Yea, but even so I suspect we will wind up with some basic interoperability with each app trying to gain users by offering features not supported by other apps.
 
Populus said:
Honestly? That would be enough for me to ditch WhatsApp
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I get it, but my point was no app wants to be just a commodity that offers no benefit beyond interconnectivity; this will lead to adding features that are exclusive to their apps in hopes of attracting users.
 
Populus said:
Yeah, we would only be able to do that if they force the interoperability between messaging apps
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I don't understand how this would even work. Say I am able to WhatsApp somebody who only has telegram on his phone. And then what? I am not convinced the people making this argument have really thought it through.
 
A very handy feature, especially for those of us where 90% of our messaging is via WhatsApp. I hadn't realised this existed but will definitely be using it.
 
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Abazigal said:
I don't understand how this would even work. Say I am able to WhatsApp somebody who only has telegram on his phone. And then what? I am not convinced the people making this argument have really thought it through.
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My understanding of interoperability proposals is messaging apps would have to use a common protocol for sending messages. And this is easy to imagine since we experience this every day with email, telephone, and texting to name a few.
 
jlc1978 said:
it really depends what app the people you need to communicate with regularly. No matter how good an app is if you can’t communicate with it it is useless.
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I don't deny that. Over the years I've experienced many migrations from one messaging platform to another. All it takes is for some users to switch before it causes a cascading critical mass.
 
jlc1978 said:
While it's not me per se; you can learn a whole lot by tracking who meets whom, how often, and with whom else; which of course you can then make wider connections.

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Sure, but that's not the reason Mark paid 47bln$ for WhatsApp. The root (well, 99%) reason is access to Contacts (almost mandatory - WA is hardly usable without granting access to Contacts). It is critical source of information (who knows who, etc.) for user data hungry corporations like Meta or Google which core revenue source is selling ads. Of course frequency of content exchange between contacts is also important ("relationship weight").

Metadata concerning meetings ... ? Come on, it's just "nice to have" feature. The sole reason Meta implements such features is just to make WhatsApp better, to make the app even more popular (more users - more revenue from ads).
 
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