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0 pointsubercow135y ago0 comments

People were willing to pay for WhatsApp. It was exactly that simple, honest, high quality independent paid chat app you are alluding to, back in 2010 or so.

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the_gipsy5y ago

Iirc, it was 1€, and maybe it was even only on iOS.

I remember vaguely getting convinced by a friend, "you just payed [200,300,idk]€ for that new phone, can't pay one euro for this one app?"

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0 pointsubercow135y ago0 comments

People were willing to pay for WhatsApp. It was exactly that simple, honest, high quality independent paid chat app you are alluding to, back in 2010 or so.

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the_gipsy5y ago

Iirc, it was 1€, and maybe it was even only on iOS.

I remember vaguely getting convinced by a friend, "you just payed [200,300,idk]€ for that new phone, can't pay one euro for this one app?"

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse