Thursday, March 21, 2013

WhatsApp on the iPhone will be charged the Annual

Purchasing system WhatsApp instant messaging applications on the iPhone will change. Buy broken system for USD 9500 on the Apple App Store subscription payments will be changed to every year.

With this, WhatsApp in iPhone ownership system will be the same as on Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. Users can use it for free in the first year and each subsequent year are required to pay approximately U.S. $ 1 or $ 9,500.

WhatsApp January Koum CEO said the system per year subscription is only valid for new customers. Koum not explain why the company is changing the model of purchase. "We just want to keep things simple," said Alexander Klöpping Koum told Dutch journalists, as quoted by TechCrunch, Monday (03/18/2013).

He could not confirm the exact date of the payment system change WhatsApp on iPhone, but it sure will happen in 2013. "We have not set a date, but for sure this year," says Koum.


WhatsApp is a popular application for cross platform instant messaging. It can be used for text messaging, audio, photos, and videos of short duration.

WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, two young former Yahoo! employee who currently lives in Santa Clara, California, USA.

They have 100 million daily active users. On the last day of 2012 or December 31, 2012 to be exact, WhatsApp traffic set a new record for reaching 18 billion messages. Currently there are 7 billion incoming messages and 11 billion messages out.

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