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Both Microsoft and Google dropped the ball bigtime by letting WhatsApp take the whole international messaging market.

I remember how refreshingly easy to use Whatsapp was when it came out. It was such a pain to transfer contacts and images and whatnot before, and having to worry about international MMS/SMS charges. Then this tiny little app comes along and blows all the others away by simple requiring phone number verification.



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