Mobile Messaging Quotes

A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.

People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field. For example, in Europe, if France wants to talk to Belgium, it's extraordinary costly because of border and telecom charges.

Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.

'WhatsApp' began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.

WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.

'WhatsApp' provides phone number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.