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Re:Snap values itself at nearly $24B with its IPO pricing by tornadoboy55 on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @05:21PM (#13769111)
WhatsApp is the most used messager with 90%+ market penetration. It has more than a billion users globally. Snap is nowhere near that user base.
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Re:Snap values itself at nearly $24B with its IPO pricing by hocuspocus on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @07:17PM (#13770131)
Indeed. In some countries, people book doctor appointments using WhatsApp.

SnapChat has always looked like a solution to a "first world problem" to me. Very US and LA/NYC-centric.

Granted, I'm old, but even in rich European countries, I'm not sure it has potential to do well? (Honest question, I really wonder).

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Re:Snap values itself at nearly $24B with its IPO pricing by janywer on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:33AM (#13773065)
Anecdote, but upwards of 80% of people younger than 25 I interact with in Germany use snapchat.
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Re:Snap values itself at nearly $24B with its IPO pricing by Keyframe on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @05:42PM (#13769288)
Viber is kind of a big deal also!
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