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Do you think something like this is plausible? I hope that it doesn't happen. Whatsapp is doing fine on its own.

Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to sources close to the matter.

We?re still digging around on potential price and other details about how advanced the deal is. But as mobile becomes the latest battleground in the Internet?s game of thrones, you can see how such a deal could make sense.

Source: http://techcrunch.co...-it-thats-what/

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I use whatsapp after i migrated away from bbm and now that all my friends have iphones and andriods and whatnot its great that theres whatsapp to keep us all msging and it looks native in all platforms not uniform

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Facebook already has a messenger app, it's not obvious to me what they could achieve with acquiring Whatsapp that they couldn't do by adding to the current Facebook messenger app.

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Facebook already has a messenger app, it's not obvious to me what they could achieve with acquiring Whatsapp that they couldn't do by adding to the current Facebook messenger app.

They would get all the Whatsapp users.

Also they might then try to eventually link all the Whatsapp users with Facebook accounts, which would mean they'd have a hell of a lot more phone numbers.

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Aren't unlimited texts a standard now for most contracts? Why bother with apps when you can have a native, well integrated experience?

I personally hate having logs in 20 places...

Not to mention WhatsApp cannot be trusted.

Glassed Silver:ios

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Aren't unlimited texts a standard now for most contracts? Why bother with apps when you can have a native, well integrated experience?

I personally hate having logs in 20 places...

Not to mention WhatsApp cannot be trusted.

Glassed Silver:ios

That is very true, however, for me I only get unlimited national SMS and charged extra for MMS and international SMS. So local friends just use SMS while overseas friends (or if need to send pic) usually use WhatsApp or Viber for that. If SMS/MMS becomes truly unlimited, then I'd probably just use SMS and ditch WhatsApp/Viber altogether.

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Aren't unlimited texts a standard now for most contracts? Why bother with apps when you can have a native, well integrated experience?

I personally hate having logs in 20 places...

Not to mention WhatsApp cannot be trusted.

Glassed Silver:ios

India has 100 SMS per day limit, after that SMS will be paid. And there is no contract system here. You buy Sim free phone and put whatever SIM you want in it. 90% are prepaid users so no monthly bill and plans. Applications like Whatsapp provide easy messaging between smsalcholic people like me. Plus there are lots of smileys, media sending options and you actually know that other person have seen you message or not :p

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This was seen coming. WhatsApp currently as I know does not have any revenue going for it (as a sole company; if the devs have money (former Yahoo) then that's why its still up) and sooner or later it was going to have to either be put for sale or charged as a product (only iOS people pay once for it)

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To be honest, I hope they will. They will only make it better.

Especially if they integrate it with Facebook, then you could use a web interface sometimes to

read and write messages when on the PC instead of typing on the phone.

Plus I'm pretty sure this would make Whatsapp completely free.

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If this was to happen the first thing I'd do (before they get taken over) is email whatsapp and demand all my data was securely erased.

Why? What do you expect Facebook to do with your data?

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Aren't unlimited texts a standard now for most contracts? Why bother with apps when you can have a native, well integrated experience?

I personally hate having logs in 20 places...

Not to mention WhatsApp cannot be trusted.

Glassed Silver:ios

Naw man, If I want unlimited text I have to pay $5 plus tax and that's not including mms, which cost around $0.50 to send.

iMessage has been a saviour in that sense for me and my other half, but not all my buddies have an iDevice, so whatsapp does leverage that situation.

Vs. Kik, Voxer, liveprofile, IMO whatsapp is the more streamlined according to the OS, they usually update the software individually ( Eg, builds for iOS, android and WP have different release dates), then there's battery life, which from my tests, whatsapp uses less. Not to mention, almost everyone I know has whatsapp :p

Though not perfect, they should add confirmation status, if you don't want a person to message you, the only workaround atm is adding that number and then blocking.

So perhaps a little bit of cash income is needed to hire more developers.

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This was seen coming. WhatsApp currently as I know does not have any revenue going for it (as a sole company; if the devs have money (former Yahoo) then that's why its still up) and sooner or later it was going to have to either be put for sale or charged as a product (only iOS people pay once for it)

Android also pay an annual fee after the initial free period. I recently paid $2 for another year of use.

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Aren't unlimited texts a standard now for most contracts? Why bother with apps when you can have a native, well integrated experience?

I personally hate having logs in 20 places...

Not to mention WhatsApp cannot be trusted.

Glassed Silver:ios

Not for international contacts... And well, mine is a company phone. Unlimited data but a very limited number of texts. So, yeah.

I use Viber, though... WhatsApp started crashing all the time after about 6 months of using it :s

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