Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo...
by josefx on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:48AM
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> It’s a pity about that but I guess FB have to pay all those great developers somehow.
They could just run it as a paid service again? They had a minimal annual charge before the Facebook acquisition and probably could have raised that, instead Facebook made it "free" which should have been a warning sign of things to come.
Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo...
by hadrien01 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:56AM
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One of the reasons the founders left was that FB wanted to put ads and track users, and didn't even want to try to make a Business paid version like WhatsApp proposed.
They could just run it as a paid service again? They had a minimal annual charge before the Facebook acquisition and probably could have raised that, instead Facebook made it "free" which should have been a warning sign of things to come.