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malkavian	2012-07-24 , 09:07
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Originally Posted by Scorpius

Very weird you don't know this: Even if you haven't heard of somebody who has paid for Whatsapp service (you must be surrounded of linux/opensource people), it already has sold millions of dollars. MILLIONS. *MILLIONS* (read it again).

Yes i have a lot of "free (as in freedom) software" contacts but most of them don't use whatsapp. The friends who use it don't care if the Android of his phones is GNU/linux or whatever and none of them paid anything yet (some of them won't do because they refuse to pay a cent for a service worse than others free).

Originally Posted by Scorpius

It was the top selling application in several countries with revenues even bigger than Angry Birds! YES: PEOPLE PAID FOR IT.

There are 2 billion of Whatsapp messages PER DAY, Whatsapp Inc never reveals the number of users

You can download a list of all users and their status. Whoever cans without needing to be a whatsapp user. In Spain at 2012 February the 9th there was 9.832.654 users.

Originally Posted by Scorpius

In conclusion, they don't need to sell your number to anyone. They are already millionaires.

Their cost must be high too. They accepted some investors so maybe they are not rich yet. One of them gave whatsapp 8 million dolars:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/08/seq...tsapp-funding/

Facebook makes tons of money in ads but they also give your data to facebook apps.

Last edited by malkavian; 2012-07-24 at 09:14.

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