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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by sp332 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:18PM (#14562929)
WhatsApp didn't fade at all. They have 1.2 billion monthly active users and climbing. Their "stories" feature got 177 million daily active users in just 10 weeks. For comparison, Snapchat is only at 166 million DAU as of Q1 this year.
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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by ForHackernews on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:28PM (#14563027)
WhatsApp is (AFAIK) the only major chat service that offers a J2ME app. There are a _lot_ of feature phones in the Global South, and a lot of telecoms that charge gouging rates for SMS and MMS.
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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by sangnoir on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:15PM (#14563979)
> WhatsApp is (AFAIK) the only major chat service that offers a J2ME app

WhatsApp's support for J2ME ended in 2016[1] - it is now smartphone only, because it requires "advanced features" (or bloat) to compete with Snapchat and complete Facebook's flanking manoeuvre (along with Instagram).

1. https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/s60/21099118

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by ForHackernews on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:45AM (#14567486)
Ah, I guess my information is out of date. It's sad that Facebook owns WhatsApp now.
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