The more I think about the acquisition the more I wished WhatsApp would've stayed on their own. $500 million a year is great. I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist and become more of a cultural institution than another acquisition; focus more on making chat amazing.
I feel like that would've had a larger, net positive effect on the public consciousness. People would see WhatsApp doing it for what's right(don't be evil) then what's profitable and I think that's just a good sentiment to have out there in the aether.
They could've easily, easily taken on the Google/Facebook conglomerate.
I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist and become more of a cultural institution than another acquisition; focus more on making chat amazing.
Well, I guess that when you've raised 58M in funding it's difficult to stay as a cultural institution. Your investors would never allow you to do that.
> They could've easily, easily taken on the Google/Facebook conglomerate.
Even better that any of these NSA-friendly conglomerates is the ChatSecure App:
"-UNBEATABLE PRIVACY: We keep your messages 100% private using state of the art Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. Your conversations cannot be logged or intercepted by anyone.
Then I wish they would've pulled a VSCOcam or something similar. Albeit they're not a cultural institution yet, they seem to be headed in that direction.
I feel like that would've had a larger, net positive effect on the public consciousness. People would see WhatsApp doing it for what's right(don't be evil) then what's profitable and I think that's just a good sentiment to have out there in the aether.
They could've easily, easily taken on the Google/Facebook conglomerate.