They cancelled subscription just this year when they already had billion users. That means people are willing to pay for it.

I don't remember paying even the $1 to them ever and I've been using WhatsApp for a good few years. Every time the expiration date approaches, it automatically gets pushed away. Either they were just giving away subscriptions intentionally or I'm just one lucky bastard.

So, No, they never had 1 billion dollar paying customers.

They used to claim to charge you after 1 year, but I never got charged due to a combination of changing phone numbers, them not asking for it, etc.

I had random freezes in 10.11.4, but it was fixed in 10.11.5.

Wow, this is insanely cool! I've been thinking to create add-on to be able to login to multiple Google accounts from different tabs, but they managed to create it faster!

What avant garde PCs have you seen?

I'm a Mac guy so I can't give brands but I've been seeing those tablet/computer hybrid things (not necessarily Surfaces) at conferences where I'd have seen 99% Macs before.

I hope they won't screw WhatsApp up, since it's pretty minimalistic and nice app.

They are the dominant player in this market, I simply can't understand why they didn't crewed it already.

I can only speculate: it's because WhatsApp is giving them an always-updated social graph of a billion people right now (including inferred information on people who, like me, didn't install the application but whose numbers are in the contacts books of people who did it) and crossing this information with FB data brings more revenue than anything they can do with WhatsApp itself.

They have enabled E2E encryption, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they won't screw it up like they have everything else.

I uninstalled both Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps from my Nexus 9 and it's become much faster. Can say that I am surprised.

Omg, link to Vanity Fair on HN...

Huh? Vanity Fair is a frequent source of important and interesting journalism...they've been writing a lot recently about the tech scene, but have also had classics such as: http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1996/05/wigand199605

Like with almost any open source project nobody promises you anything. But it's not framework, you don't lose much by not using it and you don't have to rewrite your code in case it would be abandoned.

yes I realise that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, and I love git(hub), but I'm just pointing out that "(github.com)" might just be a net-negative marketing point for people looking for robust software.