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by steinsgate 3590 days ago
It is a free service as of now (at least for me, initially they said I would have to pay after an year, but this never happened). Technically, they don't even have a business model till now. What they have is scale. I think they are afraid that a subscription model will make users churn and they would end up losing the scale. The only other alternative is an ad supported free model or a freemium model. I am wondering if a freemium model would make sense for WhatsApp.