What's Up WhatsApp? - Two Years After the Big Deal
summary
A $19 billion acquisition two years ago coincides with user count rising from ~450 million to more than double that, launches of a web client and voice calls (live for six months), and reliance on Facebook data centers and CDN so voice and multimedia scale without buying thousands of servers — today two engineers running multimedia stack supports global traffic. The $1/year fee is being removed and a commercial participation model for business messaging will be tested. Rolling rollout of end-to-end encryption with Open Whisper Systems nears completion.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:56WhatsApps Facebook Infrastructure
- 3:24WhatsApp Voice Calls
- 5:10WhatsApp in the US
- 6:43WhatsApps business model
- 10:28WhatsApps evolution
- 12:16WhatsApp for businesses
- 14:35WhatsApp vs Messenger
- 16:42WhatsApp Encryption
- 18:07WhatsApp Backdoors
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