Most popular instant messaging system in the USA, centralized servers.
Mail.Ru bought ICQ, 3rd party clients blocked, Russian Intelligence Agencies allowed to read all messages.
Bought by AOL, and faded to the background in favor of AIM.
First instant messaging app on the internet, centralized servers.
All of them do very similar things and generally fail the same way. Why is it so easy to predict that all of these internet messaging apps aren’t going to last? It’s because none of the other practically exact same messaging apps have lasted. They even promised to protect user data after the Facebook acquisition! That didn’t last very long now, did it? Pavel Duroc, the founder, and chief of Telegram may say things like “respect users”, but how long is that going to last? Whatsapp’s founders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton were originally good dictators who respected users, too. Maybe the new dictator seems like a better dictator? Switching to another messaging service might seem like the solution to Facebook’s monetization of your privacy, but be careful as you’re probably just trading one dictatorship for another dictatorship. I hear that in some countries, people even do business through WhatsApp.
Sell out and/or change policies in order to take advantage of the user base Įmbarrassingly, hundreds of millions of people keep falling for this scheme.
Generate a large user base over some number of years.
I mean the clues are pretty obvious it’s a closed system, every app has to connect to the same centralized servers, it requires your phone number… it was clearly designed from the beginning to: Personally, I specifically never became dependent on WhatsApp because 10 years ago I knew something like this would happen eventually.
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