Re:Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
by jethro_tell on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @06:22PM
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You, could do tiered models as well. At a billion users they were running 11 servers. Free with ads and data sharing, .25 targeted ads no data sharing, .50 geolocated ads only. $1 privacy + the standard. 1.50 premium extra storage or w/e
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Re:Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
by sushid on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @06:32PM
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The jump from free to $0.25 is the biggest hurdle of all. Right now, you basically don't need a payment form connected to your account to use Whatsapp. But you do with $0.25.
The tiers you suggest don't affect any layperson (would your grandmother even know what geolocated ads are? Would she care?). If anything, it sounds alarming to a layperson to even have these options.
IMO your comment is a clear example of why technical people should not always be the product decision makers.