Comment on WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, but it is mainly cosmetic
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I always thought WhatsApp’s original business model of charging $1/year was good
Comment on WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, but it is mainly cosmetic
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I always thought WhatsApp’s original business model of charging $1/year was good
Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Oh, they definitely thought it through… and then realized they could probably get more than a dollar out of us.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it was before they sold to Meta though and at that time they had 400 million users. I thought, hey $400 million dollars isn’t bad revenue. Brian Acton could’ve made a good business for himself out of that. He wanted much more though.