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Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by alagappanr on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:02PM (#17243581)
Would agree with your sentiment, but Whatsapp itself is an example of a messaging service that relied on their 1$/year model and had around 200 million active users before it went free.
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Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by Jonovono on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:17AM (#17247317)
I wouldn't say they "relied" on it. It was not enforced at all (lots of people used it without paying $1) and they sold out to Facebook. It would have been interesting to see how things played out if they had stayed independent.
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Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by 1024core on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:12AM (#17244311)
They started charging after they had achieved scale.
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Re:Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and Wh... by soziawa on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:46AM (#17244618)
No, it cost 1$ from the very beginning on iOS.
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