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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by bsder on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @10:01PM (#7268533)
The messaging part isn't the problem.

The value in Skype, WhatsApp, etc. is the vast amount of work and codebase that goes into punching holes in routers/gateways/NATs to make the internet actually work like it was originally designed.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by kayoone on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:24AM (#7270213)
WhatsApp is not p2p, they maintain a constant server connection which is not a problem for routers/gateways/NATs because its initiated from the client side.
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