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Re:Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App by mst on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @11:33PM (#11672477)
Having read the engineering posts about their core systems I think you're being wildly optimistic in the same way as people who think "writing a general CMS can't be that hard, I'll just write my own" are.
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Re:Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App by jdavis703 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:28AM (#11672665)
You could build 17.2 WhatsApps for $1 billion, assuming that it took nothing more and nothing less than the $58 million in funding they raised: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp#/entity.
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Re:Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App by cheez on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:40AM (#11673854)
Yup, that's why I said a couple. You could afford 17, but only 2 of those would be suitable.
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Re:Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App by charlesdm on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @10:34AM (#11675634)
The $19 billion paid wasn't for their amazingly well engineered system, it was for their massive user base.
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