[mercer]

Since you're on a throwaway, any chance you could ask them why WhatsApp is so low on features? Everyone I know uses it for many of their social interactions, and I find myself mostly frustrated that they don't use Telegram with its many useful features (especially for developers).

So far my theories are that 1) FB still doesn't want to give up on its flagship product, or 2) FB doesn't want to seem too actively investing into WhatsApp for either PR or legal reasons.

[throwaway84742]

From what I heard, WhatsApp is still semi-separate, and still relatively small. They just let them be, for now at least. Which, IMO, is wise. Google has ruined many an acquisition by forcing it onto Google infra and letting the Google mafia move in.

As an aside, I like WhatsApp precisely because it doesn’t have a ton of “features”.