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minus-squarehddsx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 days agoWhy are meta products so popular in Europe?
minus-squareMurrayL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 days agoWhatsApp wasn’t a Meta product when it originally took off; Meta didn’t even exist at the time. WhatsApp was bought by Facebook in 2014, and already had hundreds of millions of users at the time.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 days agoOutside the US, most carriers charged per text message, but basic data wasn’t usage-billed. You could send as many Whatsapp messages as you wanted.
Why are meta products so popular in Europe?
WhatsApp wasn’t a Meta product when it originally took off; Meta didn’t even exist at the time. WhatsApp was bought by Facebook in 2014, and already had hundreds of millions of users at the time.
Outside the US, most carriers charged per text message, but basic data wasn’t usage-billed. You could send as many Whatsapp messages as you wanted.