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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by nasredin on Monday April 30, 2018 @11:01PM (#16964297)
Do you pay for cellular data or home internet? You are paying for messaging.
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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by eecc on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @04:10AM (#16965328)
Well, messaging is baked in - even multimedia messaging - of mobile technology, but greedy telcos had to charge 0.10€ for each so people just associated them to expensive and jumped as soon as the first viable option emerged.
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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by product50 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:23AM (#16964930)
Yeah - so why don't you use those messaging apps vs. Whatsapp or Messenger?
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