Submitted 16 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year
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I always thought WhatsApp’s original business model of charging $1/year was good
Oh, they definitely thought it through… and then realized they could probably get more than a dollar out of us.
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.
torubrx@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Kinda want this to happen and go even further. This way my country will stop using this fucking app for everything
RiQuY@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
They won’t, YouTube has a subscription too and massive amounts of ads, and people still use it.