Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by ggg9990 on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:28PM
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WhatsApp supports free encrypted video calling and picture messaging, even for groups. No way that it was covering costs.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by saagarjha on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:39PM
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Why can't it? End-to-end encryption means you don't need to hold on to pictures for lengthy periods of time, and video calling can be done without a centralized service.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by detaro on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:39PM
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It does now, it did not when it was aquired.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by testvox on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:57PM
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Neither of those costs anything extra to run though. Since it's end to end encrypted with no sever backups the images and video can be communicated directly between the clients, WhatsApp just plays matchmaker.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by icebraining on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:30AM
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It could, but that's not how it does, they store the (encrypted) media in their servers so that both phones don't need to be online at the same time, and also to avoid having to upload multiple times when you send to a group.
That said, they shouldn't need to keep them around for that long, unlike FB and similar.
Having been an infra engineer previously, that pricing sounds reasonable for a messaging service based on infra costs.