I used whatsapp a long time ago but dont now.
Any thoughts about what this will do to the service?
Any thoughts about what this will do to the service?
Whatsapp? I'm not even sure what it is. Picture sharing? Never even been to the site (assuming they have one, which I don't know.)
Yeah sms does the job and its virtually free nowadays
I use whatsapp because I get virtually not signal at home & it will deliver my sms via WiFi.
Also, I work abroad frequently & it allows me to sms while roaming for free if I have a WiFi connection which I do in most places. Picture, video & group messages are also free where as my carrier charges for those.
I am, however, surprised it is as popular as it is considering that for the most part standard sms is, as Funky says, virtually free & universal.
I take you haven't had to visit Saudi Arabia, Syria, Uzbekistan or China, and use WhatsApp then? Unless you got a VPN. Sure FB is blocked in those countries as well, China at least.
Yes, this is the problem. I installed WhatsApp to use on a project - all of us could easily chat from various operating systems. Once we were done, I really didn't have much use for it; most of my contacts didn't use it and the ones that did I don't talk to that often. Same thing happened when I downloaded Kik messenger. Not that many of my contacts were found.The good thing about this is that that every time you turn around there are new messaging apps starting up. No matter what they do to it, there will always be FREE alternatives, and as long as you can convince everyone that YOU know to try another one it doesn't matter what the rest of the world is using, lol.
I just stick with SMS messaging, to much trouble to convince anyone to use anything else.
Yeah sms does the job and its virtually free nowadays
Yes, this is the problem. I installed WhatsApp to use on a project - all of us could easily chat from various operating systems. Once we were done, I really didn't have much use for it; most of my contacts didn't use it and the ones that did I don't talk to that often. Same thing happened when I downloaded Kik messenger. Not that many of my contacts were found.
Yeah its hard for one messaging app to hit that critical mass where it explodes and lots of people end up with it on their device. Whatsapp probably did that the best which is why fb bought them
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