Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook

Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by twblalock on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:03PM (#16962834)

WhatsApp and Facebook have many users in the developing world who could not afford a subscription unless the price was extremely low.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by Lionsion on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:17PM (#16962937)

> WhatsApp and Facebook have many users in the developing world who could not afford a subscription unless the price was extremely low.

I would make sense to me to scale the price to the market. Make it $5 in the US and 5 rupees in India.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by ajaimk on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:29PM (#16963729)

They did. Before it all went free

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by hengheng on Monday April 30, 2018 @08:31PM (#16963738)

Don't ad earnings scale accordingly?

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by kristianc on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:10PM (#16962883)

Salaries in the developing world are low, but they're not that low. Average salary in Brazil is $670/m. $10 per year does not seem overly onerous.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by paxy on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:20PM (#16962962)

Median salary in India (WhatsApp's largest market) is $600-$1500 per year.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:24AM (#16965376)

that seems like a wide median to me.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by paxy on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @08:56PM (#16973203)

Simply because there's no one objective way to calculate that number. How do you define the total labor force? Do you count seasonal workers? Part-time workers? People who are unemployed but otherwise working age?

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by bryanrasmussen on Thursday May 10, 2018 @04:24AM (#17037181)

thanks for the clarification.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by detaro on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:14PM (#16962908)

If there's cheaper/free alternatives?

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by isostatic on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:12AM (#16965115)

$80 a year seems a lot for someone on $65k/y for an SMS replacement.

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