Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by chockablock on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:11PM (#7268070)

per-message billing by telcos, high costs for international messages, no identity management (only tied to phone #), not cross-platform, character limits (MMS, the workaround, is historically janky), no delivery confirmation, lack of end-to-end encryption. Shall I go on?

the only thing it has going for it (and it's a big one) is ubiquity.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by recursive on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:08PM (#7272480)

I see. No one I text pays per message or is in a different country. I'm not sure what you mean by "cross-platform", since every phone you can buy supports it as far as I know. The character limit is a small issue. The delivery confirmation is a bigger issue to me. I don't care about end-to-end encryption when one of those ends is a major company that has ties to state-sponsored surveillance.

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