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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by Beaver117 on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:07AM (#34544432)
Ads, sales, new partnerships with companies, etc WhatsApp doesn't have any of those
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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by bierjunge on Friday January 27, 2023 @05:39AM (#34544618)
They have at least sales and partnerships: https://business.whatsapp.com/
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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by IceWreck on Sunday January 29, 2023 @03:31AM (#34566080)
They do now. The article is from 2015.
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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by darkwater on Sunday January 29, 2023 @03:31AM (#34566084)
Nowadays that it's Meta. Back in the day it was just a end-user chat platform, and pretty simple.
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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by jillesvangurp on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:28AM (#34568415)
They used to have the 1 dollar per year payment for users. With the amount of users they had, that probably covered all of their cost and then some.
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