When Facebook bought WhatsApp in February 2014 for $19 billion, the messaging app was the most popular in the world (with 450 million users) but barely making any money: around $20 million in sales annually, on a yearly subscription that it only charged users in a few countries. After the blockbuster deal, Facebook said that WhatsApp would continue to operate independently, and WhatsApp even put out a blog post, a couple of months later, refuting suggestions that it would undermine its strict principles on privacy because it had sold to a company that made the vast majority of its money from selling ads.
A good application going to hell. Skype was good until MS bought them; now, F Book following M$ steps. Both buying the good communication applications to "slave" you better.
