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WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status(techcrunch.com)

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In the US Apple had an early lead with the iPhone and so a lot of people converted from SMS to iMessage.

In the EU the iPhone didn’t have the same adoption, so when WhatsApp came along most people were still communicating with SMS, so it was WhatsApp which captured the market instead.

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