WhatsApp will also charge annually on iPhone
One more day, a new controversy with WhatsApp Today all users of this communication tool should know thatIt is a paid application And there has already been a lot of talk since at the beginning of this month of March WhatsApp has stopped being benevolent with free renewals and has started requesting the payment of 0.79 euros for a year of serviceSomething well known to iPhone users, who have to purchase the application from the first moment of use , without a free year. Although there is bad news for them.
And, according to the specialized media TechCrunch, the version of WhatsApp for iPhone will also begin to charging annually just likeAndroid, Nokia Symbian, Windows Phone and BlackBerry A fact that, unfortunately, is not a rumour, and is that it comes directly from the mouth of Jan Koum, CEO and creator of WhatsApp, who has revealed this information through a brief interview with a Dutch journalist, and which has been echoed by said website. A new monetization system that would begin to be applied during this same year, without a date determined.
According to the words of Koum, the idea is to apply the same business model on iPhone , offering the first year of service completely free and starting to charge for renewals annually for less than a dollar. Something very different from what is being done on this platform, in which users must pay to download but, in exchange, have a Free service for life No renewals or new payments. Something they do because they want to “keep things simple”, according to Koum as a way for explanation.
But, this question is not the only piece of information offered by the interview with Koum It seems that the users of WhatsApp can wait for the version of this tool for computers And it is that, despite the requests, Koum affirms that it is the mobile to which users are constantly glued, not to their computers, so the idea is to continue to focus on this platform.
More likely to appear in this tool are video calls, a function that does seem to be in the roadmap of this app, although “definitely not for this year”, according to its creator. Nor is anything said about the introduction of games, as LINE has managed to exploit, nor about the possible buyer search for this tool, which Koum qualifies as “get married thinking about divorce”. Issues that will continue to be rumors given the secrecy of this company
Therefore, it is to be expected that in the coming months it will be the version of WhatsApp for iPhone the one to talk about by becoming completely free for at least a year, and going on to require the subscription renewal annually in order to continue using it.Of course, this new system will only affect new users, and not retroactively. Something that will surely help to avoid the confusion and commotion that has happened in Android this month
