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by 56friends 1245 days ago
#2 is interesting. I am very curious what the ultimate plan for having 2 messaging apps is (at least in Zuck’s head). My bet is that his fantasy is to eventually merge them into a single service: Meta Messenger.
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baby 1245 days ago
Yeah I believe the plan for interop has been public for years now
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i67vw3 1245 days ago
FB messenger is largely used in US. In non-US countries everyone uses Whatsapp.

If they drop whatsapp to combine both of them, it will have quite serious effects and completely ruin the whole 'thing'.

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56friends 1244 days ago
They could do this very gradually. First rename WhatsApp to Meta Messenger. Keep everything else the same. Then with interop being implemented slowly merge FB messenger into Meta Messenger.
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baby 1245 days ago
interop is not about dropping one over the other, it's about being able to talk to messenger user through whatsapp
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