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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by lucb1e on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:42PM (#16963144)
They used to charge €1/year. It seemed extremely little, but I did the math once and it worked out (around 2015, when they already had about as much market share as they do now in the Netherlands), including things like wages. There was even money left for a Ferrari for every employee. This is assuming that they actually charge everyone by the way, which they weren't (I don't understand why -- it seems cheap enough that even people in a developing countries could afford it).

I too would gladly pay (anything reasonable) if it meant they'd split off from Facebook and become in dependent again.

Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by batiudrami on Monday April 30, 2018 @11:39PM (#16964435)
Because people gravitate to things that are free, especially in third world countries. And not just because they can't afford it - it can be issues such as not having a credit card.

The reason whatsapp got traction in the first place was it was free (for a year+) when SMS was not. If Whatsapp cost $1 then people would use whatever was free.

Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by eecc on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:06AM (#16965312)
Same here, and use GDPR to delete all Social Graph edges siphoned off after the acquisition.