[j45]

Whatsapp wasn’t always all those things on this first release.

It was the first Universal messaging app across multiple platforms. It worked on a lot of obscure mobile OS’ and devices that didn’t have something like BBM. The ability to connect was novel.

Today’s world is different, it might not be easy to build the next WhatsApp, but technologies are being adopted quicker than WhatsApp was.

If people can learn WhatsApp, and the first app they used a lot was WhatsApp, they will learn other things.

[_trampeltier]

In the beginning I had no idea, why people used WhatsApp. Line hat so much more features in the early messenger days. To use Line for phone or video chat was years before WhatsApp possible. But Line was mostly just in asia a thing.