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Re:Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money by robryan on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @06:13PM (#17667561)
Doesn’t Facebook make $100per user per year in the US off ads? If WhatsApp can get anywhere near that there would be no reasistic price point which people would actually pay that would work for Facebook.
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Re:Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money by brisance on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @11:18PM (#17669026)
That's the crux of the argument. Most of WhatsApp users are outside of North America; many of them would balk at paying for a $100 phone, so their value is definitely not $100/user/year.
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