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What makes WhatsApp revolutionary compared to SMS or ICQ (or AIM or gchat or Facebook Messenger or...)?


None of what I mentioned are revolutionary at the technological level - they are using existing techniques to offer services to a large population. The technological revolution is realized only when enough people use the technology and society is changed along with it.




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