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basisword on Feb 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook quietly ends email address system

I doubt this is the end of Facebook trying email. With WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger they own the major alternative to SMS. WhatsApp is going to be launching voice support in Q2 meaning Facebook will own a large portion of voice calls. The only major communications left out are email. Unless their thought is 'email is dead' they will come back with a better product eventually, it's too big a hole to leave.

amirmc on Feb 25, 2014 [–]

Or they'll buy whoever makes it to, say, 500M+ monthly active users of some other, new, email service. Probably for tens of billions.

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