I read that blog post when the acquisition was announced ... And laughed! While it feels like the (then) WhatsApp CEO was sincere, did anyone really believe that Zuckerberg would be a hands-off owner? Or that his public-only data content ideas wouldn't become dominant? I'll agree that I think this move contradicts his blog post but I also don't think the purchased entity gets to set the terms after agreeing to be bought ... That would be an interesting contract to read.
you wouldn't pay 2 billion for messaging app with few hundred millions of users that is without ads and doesn't make any money to be philanthropic about it, would you (or anybody else)
I remember it said 1$ from next year onwards and first year was free. May if they weren't not bought out by FB that would have been their option and it would have been a better one. Not sure why any of the lead not start new clone and start charging
I for one didn't believe that blog post and deleted my WhatsApp account the moment the acquisition notice came up. It didn't make much sense why a messaging platform would be bought for $19 billion and not used by Facebook to better target advertising.
