View Single Post
Old 02-24-2014, 03:49 PM  
DamianJ
Too lazy to set a custom title
 
DamianJ's Avatar
 
Industry Role:
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: A magical land
Posts: 15,808
Quote:
Originally Posted by EddyTheDog View Post
WhatsApp to add voice-call function within months.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26325363

Facebook want to move in on Skype which is pretty bad on mobiles and tablets...
No.

Adding VOIP will not suddenly make them profitable.

What FB are buying is mobile users to datamine.

They couldn't do mobile, couldn't do pictures, and couldn't do messaging. Very well.

So, they bought the largest mobile picture sharing service, which now seems cheap at 1 billion. Then they buy a very large mobile messaging service.

They don't care about anything except mining the data. VOIP is so far down the list of important things.
DamianJ is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote