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Re:Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money by kikoreis on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:47PM (#17668916)
I'm from Latin America, and I can't agree with that: lower middle class people don't tend to have access to credit cards. Besides, even for people who do have credit cards, the friction of using one for payment is non-trivial.

The reason everybody uses WhatsApp is that they never paid for it -- in fact neither I nor anybody I asked can actually recall ever seeing payment UX on the app.

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Re:Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money by elboru on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:47AM (#17669656)
Agree, I'm from Mexico and over here Uber had to change their payments methods. They started allowing cash payments to prevent missing a good portion of the market. And yes, I've used WhatsApp since the early years and I never paid for it, actually I don't even remember WhatsApp being insistent about it.
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