$1 installation fee was eliminated in order to make it more accessible for the consumers who needed it most.
While WhatsApp greatly benefited from the resources that Meta has been able to provide for it, not everyone is happy with what Meta has turned WhatsApp into, including one of the original creators of the application.
As Meta begins trying to create a new identity outside of Facebook, some people wonder if the handling of its applications and branches will ever change.
Others believe that the name change is just another way for Mark Zuckerberg’s company to try and save its reputation.
Jan Koum and Brian Acton created WhatsApp after leaving their jobs at Yahoo! in 2009.
Their time with their previous company left them with a disdain for advertising and the way that many other technology-based companies were covering their websites and applications with advertisements.
Many major tech companies were more focused on how they could make another penny rather than how they could be making the application better for the user.
While other messaging applications relied on gimmicks and games to pull users in, WhatsApp was created and developed to be a pure messaging experience.
The WhatsApp team’s distaste for advertisements led them to expand on the reason that they didn’t sell ads on their application with a link that leads to a quote from Fight Club.
To be continue in next issue
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