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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by tw04 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:10AM (#15161483)
I'm not sure what to tell you, I'm not fabricating the fact there was very much a yearly subscription fee associated with the app (and prior to that a price to just download the app). I'm aware it didn't apply universally which is why I specifically said it varied depending on platform.

https://www.imore.com/whatsapp-moves-yearly-subscription-pay...

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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by aetherson on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:15AM (#15161515)
Well, you claimed in the post I responded to a monthly subscription, not an annual one. What's a factor of twelve between friends?

My understanding is that the annual fee was essentially nonexistent, honored far more on the breach than in the observance, though all I know for sure is that they never charged me.

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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by coldtea on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:21AM (#15161864)
Or one might have not even noticed it. Just a click somewhere in a dialog, end of story. Among 10,000 other events we go through everyday...
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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by tw04 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:15PM (#15162910)
Not sure why I typed /month, it was always a yearly fee or a flat fee to buy the app. Can't edit it at this point.
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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by signal11 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:33AM (#15161936)
I have an iTunes receipt from 2013 for 69p paid for a year's worth of Whatsapp service. Their message then was "we charge because we don't want to show you ads".

IIRC they were always free in emerging markets like India though.

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