Facebook Purchases WhatsApp for $16 Billion

Scococo said:
This pretty much sums up the typical whatsapp core userbase.
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You've already stated you don't have a clue about what the WhatsApp user base demographics are, even though they've been widely reported, so quit trying to make it sound like you know what you're talking about. Yes it's popular in Asia, it's also quite popular in the UK, and the rest of Europe.
 


Fatbat said:
You make it sound like Facebook is dying. It's not. 1.3 billion users up from 1.1 billion in March 2013. There are approximately 2.5 billion people online in the world, with new people coming online all the time. This means Facebook has pretty much half of them as customers (even if they're teens pretending they're not, with rather extensive data about all of them) and is growing. What other company can say that? Facebook is valued at around 170 billion. That's a value of about $130 per user. If WhatsApp hits 1 billion users, and they can put a valuation anywhere near that on those users, then they're laughing.
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Facebook is dead in the water...

For the Western World. And that's where the money is at.

Google trends is your friend.
 
Fatbat said:
You make it sound like Facebook is dying.
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Nah, I don't know that. I do think that their brand must be becoming toxic. Even if they aren't losing the teen demographic.... let's just say people are lying about associating with a particular company, that doesn't sound good. I'd understand if they're selling micro-condoms, but this is not that sort of thing.
 
Well I think my days of being single are over, time to put my potent latin sperm to use and father about 5 or 6 kids so I can teach them objective-c and java
 
I'd like to get into app development but the market is so saturated. Virtually any random thing I think of there is an app for. I mean there is a gazillion apps just for cat games alone or fish ponds, etc.
 
this thread makes eduardom3 look like a peasant. $100M is only 5% of $19 B.

similar to how the average american earns around $50k and baller entrepreneurs make $1 m+ per year. $50k is only 5% of 1 mil.

:|
 
gbmack said:
this thread makes eduardom3 look like a peasant. $100M is only 0.5% of $19 B.

similar to how the average american earns around $50k and baller entrepreneurs make $1 m+ per year. $50k is only 5% of 1 mil.

:|
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FTFY. It's even more baller than you were thinking.

And their story is pretty amazing. One of the founders was on fucking foodstamps around the time he started this venture. Yahoo shot him down for a job, Facebook shot him down. Good for these guys.
 
User9364 said:
My point is that once they learn Facebook bought WhatsApp, they'll see the writing on the wall and be on to the next chat program... maybe called NotFacebook. Instead of brand loyalty... what we have here is brand disloyalty toward facebook.

Your analogy doesn't quite fit that.
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They may already be moving away from WhatsApp to some extent. I was told by a Thai girl the other day that WhatsApp was for the 'conservative people' and that everyone was now using Line, which is WhatsApp with funny gifs.

That's my problem with buying these one hit wonders for such huge amounts. It really doesn't take much for someone to take what is effective (free instant messaging) and build upon it (free instant messaging with cute pictures) and there is no brand loyalty for WhatsApp, the young generation just jumps onto Line in a second.

Of course, my peasent opinion is just that, but lets not act like big corporations don't fuck up all the time buying trending one hit wonders. Yahoo is infamous for it for example.

That being said, I am pleased that IM is on its way back, so we don't have to suffer the narcisistic delusion that is Facebook.

The real lesson to take away is definitely that we are in an app bubble and there is big money to be made.
 
tangy said:
If you're not involved in app development, why not? And if you think the space is saturated or competitive, I can assure you that it's not even close to PPC/CPA/SEO/SEP/SE1/wat
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OP s.t.f.u., stop outing.

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