Comment by blell
15 hours ago
Why would you spend a lot of money to make a better app for whatsapp and let them keep all the revenue?
You won't get enough people to pay you money to use your app to make it profitable. If you think you will, then you have a business already; go build it!
> keep all the revenue
Which revenue? Whatsapp is for free, those 3.3 billion people use it for free, the revenue is the reselling of user data and showing them ads. Which they would do less with a 3rd party client, and as such Meta fights it tooth and nail.
> You won't get enough people to pay you money to use your app
It might surprise you but people build apps just for fun, free and open source for others to use, just to make the world better. Which really would be in this case, that's also the intention of this law.