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by praneshp 3170 days ago
Messaging people across countries, not worrying about what phone they had, or about having to pay extra money.
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Yes, but we already had free messengers. As I pointed out in another post, Windows Live Messenger already worked on a bunch of phones (including J2ME).
And yet Windows Live Messenger is dead and whatsapp is going strong. It was a piece of shit.