• Laser@feddit.org
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    30 days ago

    WhatsApp built its user base on the promise of free messaging

    Really? Because initially, WhatsApp did actually charge money for the service, though it was only $1 a year. But I don’t remember them ever promising free messaging.

    Fun fact, WhatsApp wasn’t even designed as a messenger in the first place, it was just meant as an app to show your status (like “at the movies”), but then evolved into one.

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      29 days ago

      Yeah you’re responding to a bot whose instructions are to wax lyrically about OSS and anti-Google sentiment.