Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by downandout on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:20PM
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You do if you’ve been acquired for $19 billion. The founders couldn’t have been naive enough to think that Facebook and its shareholders didn’t have a need to monetize such an enormous investment. Facebook is not a charity, it’s a business.
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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by DSingularity on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:31PM
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Facebook monetizes Whatsapp by limiting its growth. You can easily think of all the “social” functionality Whatsapp could have added in competition with FB and Messenger.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by kerng on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:44PM
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Facebook paid 19 billion to buy up competition, as WhatsApp was a threat to the Facebook ecosystem.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by unlimit on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:11AM
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That is what I am seeing now here in India, folks in my circle barely post anything to facebook now, all pictures, status messages are on WhatsApp now.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by BurningFrog on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:52PM
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If FB pays $19B for every messenger competitor that gets traction, that's a huge incentive to make more of them.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by ksaxena on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:32AM
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There are network effects at play; so once a messenger has locked-in most users, it's extremely hard for newcomers to gain sustainable traction.
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:00AM
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yeah but now you have to compete with WhatsApp to get that traction, so maybe a hard slog.