This is the thing that I think we're all learning from the Chinese: that this merging of messaging, media, and payments together really makes sense to people.
I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.
Few people outside the Telegram fan community realize that most of the new features in messaging appear on Telegram first, and are then carbon-copied by WhatsApp down to the tiniest details.
My younger son told me nobody uses email anymore. I'm this old fogie with my email. I don't know what I'm supposed to communicate with now - SnapChat?
I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.
They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.
Path is a well designed app with a singular purpose. For users who solely want to share with a small group of friends, and share everything with the whole group, it is very effective. And of course, it is wonderfully designed. Just.me isn't better or worse, it's just very different. Just.me is a messaging application, not just a sharing app.
Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.
We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.
I've always been a texting advocate.
We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck.
On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.
