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So once everyone switches to Signal, Facebook just gets out the checkbook and buys Signal... rinse and repeat
by lefty2 6y ago
So once everyone switches to Signal, Facebook just gets out the checkbook and buys Signal... rinse and repeat
- soperj 6y agoWhy would they sell?
- crocodiletears 6y agoEnough money to buy a small country?
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoWhy did Jan Koum and Brian Acton sell Whatsapp? They should have tried to monetize it with their $1 a year (or whatever) fee and see how many paid. The truth is that they became big in geographies like India (population 1.3 billion) because they didn't actually enforce the fee for most users, and because Whatsapp worked very well with low data usage across all platforms including Symbian and offered free messaging at a time when Indians were used to having to pay per SMS. It's convenient for the founders to grandstand now that Whatsapp is someone else's responsibility, but it was their responsibility once, and they never converted it into a profitable company, and when they got a offer too big to refuse, sold.
- dastx 6y agoMuch of the money was in Facebook stock, which the founder walked away from cos Zuckerberg gonna Zuckerberg.
- tchalla 6y agoIt’s very difficult my to influence Signal for a very long time because of the way they are structured. If that’s your concern, we can talk about making Signal a public utility rather than a “Rinse, Lather Repeat” scenario. https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1350130193789296645?s=21 https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1350130193789296645?s=21