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WhatsApp to Add Voice Calling in Q2 2014
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I hardly used the terrible looking app. Luckily, most of my family and friends are on iOS.
After the Facebook deal was announced and I looked into it some more, I became aware of WhatsApp's awful privacy protection track record and immediately deleted my account and the app.
F&F that did use WhatsApp seem to be moving over to Telegram. I've received a few invites over the weekend and have tried out that app. It looks much better than WhatsApp (at least on iOS) and from what I've been able to find out online, it seems much more secure.
After the Facebook deal was announced and I looked into it some more, I became aware of WhatsApp's awful privacy protection track record and immediately deleted my account and the app.
F&F that did use WhatsApp seem to be moving over to Telegram. I've received a few invites over the weekend and have tried out that app. It looks much better than WhatsApp (at least on iOS) and from what I've been able to find out online, it seems much more secure.
It's not so much what's better but more about what those you want to talk to use. If most of your friends are on WhatsApp what good would LINE do for you?
As for profitability, seems like WhatsApp is way more profitable for those who have been working on it making $19 billion.
That aside, the whole emoticon/sticker thing, is also fairly regional, as it's not nearly even close to anything popular in many places around the world.----------
What would that "awful privacy protection track record" be exactly?
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You might have a misconception of what the word "hemorrhaging" means, given the continued increase in Facebook's user numbers (overall and active).
They bought the phone contacts that we try to hide from the official FB app. It will let their data scientists to create richer relationships between users that FB had not built yet, but may be otherwise very strong offline. The reason being if it's in your contact list you are probably friends are rely on that service a lot. (Dentist, etc). So I wouldn't be surprised if Yelp got bought out too to supplement the non-unique personal phone contacts we have.
This is what Facebook allegedly does...
This is what Facebook allegedly does... hope they crash and burn soon.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/bu...-Facebook-Ad-Disaster-Is-A-5258472.php#page-1
What?
Anyone agrees to that?
No audits? No third-party verification? No recourse?
You're kidding, right?
Sure, there will be discrepancies. Some people will click the ad and then close the browser before your site gets the request. That can happen, either due to some sort of network problem or simply because the user clicked by mistake.
But at this alleged level?
From: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=228793
This is what Facebook allegedly does... hope they crash and burn soon.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/bu...-Facebook-Ad-Disaster-Is-A-5258472.php#page-1
What?
Anyone agrees to that?
No audits? No third-party verification? No recourse?
You're kidding, right?
Sure, there will be discrepancies. Some people will click the ad and then close the browser before your site gets the request. That can happen, either due to some sort of network problem or simply because the user clicked by mistake.
But at this alleged level?
From: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=228793
WeChat and Line are the kings whether you want to believe it or not.
Chances are if you're in north America you can't see the forest for the burgers.
WhatsApp will be dead soon enough.
Chances are if you're in north America you can't see the forest for the burgers.
WhatsApp will be dead soon enough.
iMessage works just fine for me. And people spend too much time texting anyways. Pick up the phone if you have more than 3 words to say!
These apps became popular due to international users, you can text your friend accross the globe for free, and whether we like it or not, not everyone has iDevices, hence Whatsapp is popular now.
To your point though, Viber now is gaining massive popularity, it's texting and Voice, for free. Can't beat that.
Kings of what? WhatsApp still has more users, so who exactly is not seeing trees or burgers here again?
I have literally never heard of either of them. Where I'm from most people seem to use BBM. I guess it all depends on your location as to what people use.