pendusky: hav u not been buying 2go credit? for whatsapp, people renew their sub, so if u hav been using it for more than a yr, i think ure cheating on them

Caracta:

Keep deceiving yourself. I laugh!

DISTINCTIONIST: ASK GOOGLE

Victoriousvic: 2go >> Purchase of gocredits, adverts.

Whatsapp >> Annual membership subscription of $1.

hilaryiwens05: Apart from dat wat else....I haven't paid for whatsapp since I started using it ooooo

dadaic: Lol.. People are funny. What'sapp started recently and it sure has grabbed a lot of attention. A classic disruptive idea as I will put it. How do they make money!! Simple, when it all started, it was free, which you and I downloaded, and we all know it started in 2009, so everyone who used in 2009, two years later, they have to pay 99 cents, another 3 years later, you pay $1.99, they do not need advertising neither do they need to advertise their market. They depend on public mouth. The site itself is built just with $10, they don't depend on heavy budget. Judging from the users of the app, over 100 million subscribers has been using since it started, now imagine how much they would have made, or are still making. The problem is people are wanting to purchase the app from it's owners making it difficult for instant messaging to be free. Well, only if it's bought. You don't need to advertise to make cash, as long as your idea is good, public mouth will make you rich only by the number of people viewing or downloading such app. Hope I have been able to help. Check the Nasdaq charts and see how their peak period has been, and you will understand what I am saying.

SayITnw: There are many ways they will be earning money:
1. If the apps is networkcentric, then the network provider and the apps owner would have defined benefits within a contract. Which could mean while the apps is free, you will incur cost on data use for download and continuous usage of the application, the apps owner will be getting an agreed share of that, in some cases it could be a one of payment....Even if the apps is not free...a sharing formular would have been agreed.
2. No of positive hits could be another. Apps on playstore for example don't just get in there, play store team will have reached an agreement with the apps developer.

allisonluvsu: Whatsapp houses close to three hundred million users worldwide. A certain amount of money is normally deducted from your account when you register on whatsapp. Whatsapp makes millions of dollars from the google playstore. Of recent, whatsapp racked up $355,000 from Apple’s App Store — and just $41,000 from Google Play.WhatsApp also made $290,000 in Germany from Google Play and just $207,000 from the app store. The income generated from the sales of there app from the itune store alone is simply very large.So you see, whatsapp makes lots of money on daily basis.

For 2go
2go makes alot of money from gocredits and of recent, 2go has introduced adverts into their app. Go to the 2go rooms and you will see some of these3 adverts. Those guys make millions from these adverts. It is just that we are not too careful to observe this.

I hope i have answered your question

ITbomb:

However here in Nigeria, app developers start from day one to imagine how 500 people will buy their 'unknown' products.

dadaic: Lol.. People are funny. What'sapp started recently and it sure has grabbed a lot of attention. A classic disruptive idea as I will put it. How do they make money!! Simple, when it all started, it was free, which you and I downloaded, and we all know it started in 2009, so everyone who used in 2009, two years later, they have to pay 99 cents, another 3 years later, you pay $1.99, they do not need advertising neither do they need to advertise their market. They depend on public mouth. The site itself is built just with $10, they don't depend on heavy budget. Judging from the users of the app, over 100 million subscribers has been using since it started, now imagine how much they would have made, or are still making. The problem is people are wanting to purchase the app from it's owners making it difficult for instant messaging to be free. Well, only if it's bought. You don't need to advertise to make cash, as long as your idea is good, public mouth will make you rich only by the number of people viewing or downloading such app. Hope I have been able to help. Check the Nasdaq charts and see how their peak period has been, and you will understand what I am saying.

lawrenceunaa: Well said , most apps make their money via adverts and also by gaining traffic(ask seun)

lawrenceunaa: Well said , most apps make their money via adverts and also by gaining traffic(ask seun)

ITbomb: Normally what they do is to get a venture capitalist to finance the app for up to 3-5 years. In the first few years what they are focus on is to make more people aware and use it, then as people start depending on it, they introduce adverts, finally they will offer premium services for a fee.

However here in Nigeria, app developers start from day one to imagine how 500 people will buy their 'unknown' products.

allisonluvsu: Whatsapp houses close to three hundred million users worldwide. A certain amount of money is normally deducted from your account when you register on whatsapp. Whatsapp makes millions of dollars from the google playstore. Of recent, whatsapp racked up $355,000 from Apple’s App Store — and just $41,000 from Google Play.WhatsApp also made $290,000 in Germany from Google Play and just $207,000 from the app store. The income generated from the sales of there app from the itune store alone is simply very large.So you see, whatsapp makes lots of money on daily basis.

For 2go
2go makes alot of money from gocredits and of recent, 2go has introduced adverts into their app. Go to the 2go rooms and you will see some of these3 adverts. Those guys make millions from these adverts. It is just that we are not too careful to observe this.

I hope i have answered your question

paulmarkino: All of you guys make me laugh. Don't you know that each app has a recognised IP on each network worldwide. The networks sort the data counter out according to their IP @ a certain period of time and pay to the app owner their own benefits. Thats why some networks will tell you to buy 1 month unlimited whatsapp @ N100 and N300 for unlimited BBM/month etc. Thats why the network providers try as much as possible to stop free browsing cheats that can run those apps thru their network. Using cheat through a network will imply that the network will pay the bill to the app owner from their pocket since they didn't catch the real users to bill them for those data services they made use of. Let me stop here for now. For more info on this, contact me

alotofgrace: whatsapp team dosnt do ads....
u pay like $1 after 1 yr of oshofree
i was suprised wen my subscripton was renewed for free last year!

paulmarkino: All of you guys make me laugh. Don't you know that each app has a recognised IP on each network worldwide. The networks sort the data counter out according to their IP @ a certain period of time and pay to the app owner their own benefits. Thats why some networks will tell you to buy 1 month unlimited whatsapp @ N100 and N300 for unlimited BBM/month etc. Thats why the network providers try as much as possible to stop free browsing cheats that can run those apps thru their network. Using cheat through a network will imply that the network will pay the bill to the app owner from their pocket since they didn't catch the real users to bill them for those data services they made use of. Let me stop here for now. For more info on this, contact me

SayITnw: There are many ways they will be earning money:
1. If the apps is networkcentric, then the network provider and the apps owner would have defined benefits within a contract. Which could mean while the apps is free, you will incur cost on data use for download and continuous usage of the application, the apps owner will be getting an agreed share of that, in some cases it could be a one of payment....Even if the apps is not free...a sharing formular would have been agreed.
2. No of positive hits could be another. Apps on playstore for example don't just get in there, play store team will have reached an agreement with the apps developer.

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