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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:40PM (#28994066)
They still don't!
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by AussieWog93 on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:51PM (#28994171)
I think that depends on how you define "general public". My mum doesn't, but my (far more digitally savvy) teenage cousin does.

Back in 2009, though, this was a very different story. Even tech-savvy people didn't care.

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