Softwares WhatsApp drops $1 annual fee, will get more businesses on platform

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WhatsApp is now a totally free app as the $1 annual subscription fee has been dropped. WhatsApp also promises it will remain ad-free.

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WhatsApp, which has over 900 million monthly active users, is now a totally free app as the $1 annual subscription fee has been dropped. According to a blogpost from WhatsApp, the company said that charging the subscription fee, has not really worked well. The blogpost reads, “Many WhatsApp users don’t have a debit or credit card number and they worried they’d lose access to their friends and family after their first year. So over the next several weeks, we’ll remove fees from the different versions of our app and WhatsApp will no longer charge you for our service.”

WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum also confirmed the announcement at the annual Digital-Life-Design (DLD) conference in Munich. “Today, we are announcing that WhatsApp is going to be free to users. We aren’t going to charge a dollar a year anymore,” he said. Koum also spoke about making WhatsApp fully encrypted for users on Android phones. “We are a couple of months away from calling it done,” Koum said, noting that once completed, WhatsApp will represent the world’s largest service offering completely private messaging. “Soon we will be able to talk more about this,” he added

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