alt Hacker NewsBesides what WhatsApp does on a technical level can be fairly easily replicated.
Getting the 2 billion users is the hard part. But that is marketing not coding.
Besides what WhatsApp does on a technical level can be fairly easily replicated.
Getting the 2 billion users is the hard part. But that is marketing not coding.
> But that is marketing not coding.
it's the network effect.
If normies who don't care for things (which is most people tbh) don't decide to switch, do you, as a techie/early adopter, just turn off whatsapp and disconnect with your normie friends? You are unlikely to be important enough in the friend group to force a switch, not to mention that this needs to happen enmass for a swing in the network effect to happen.