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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Lammy on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:21PM (#22471752)
If FB Messenger beat Whatsapp they wouldn’t have had to buy it.
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by notyourday on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:41AM (#22473949)
Facebook bought Whatsapp for the social graph, not the messenger technology
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Re:LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, ... by Lammy on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @06:45PM (#22479868)
Yes, exactly. The social graph they couldn’t acquire organically by having the better product.
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