Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App

Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by sschueller on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:47AM (#7269693)

These numbers are going to drop significantly now. Everyone I talk to is unhappy about the acquisition and will switch to something else like telegram.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by ville on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:02AM (#7269965)

I'd say more than 99.9% of WhatsApp users haven't heard of Telegram.

WhatsApp users are mostly not early adopters like you and your friends. They are ordinary people, because WhatsApp is is a simple communication tool targeted to everyone. And that's why they keep doubling their user base.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by krisgenre on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:49AM (#7269915)

Unless Facebook actually puts their logo on WhatsApp, hardly anyone would notice. The tech community is minuscule compared to the large number of non-tech people using WhatsApp.

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by Jare on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:55AM (#7270117)

The uproar in Spain about WhatsApp switching to $1 per year was huge, noisy and... emphemeral. Line got a lot of new signups for a few weeks, but the only person I know that still considers using Line today didn't even have WhatsApp back then (but, like everyone else, does have it now).

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Re:Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App by enewcomer on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:46AM (#7269899)

Unless everybody switches, few will switch. Network effects also create some pretty powerful stickiness.

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