How did Whatsapp beat Skype? Couldn't you basically do what everyone does in Whatsapp, with Skype?

>>105994291 (OP)
you could do it without having a bloated, sloppy, laggy mess which skype was. opening skype pretty much revved your computer at the time.

>>105994329
Not if you had at least a mid ranged machine

>>105994291 (OP)
skype was always dogshit people only used for videocalls
pic related is what could have easily taken over the space whatsapp has by just letting you talk to people in a computer with your phone, but microsoft went beyond retarded and decided to NEVER release it on smartphones for some ungodly reason. like holy fuck how hard could it have been?

>>105994291 (OP)
remembering the password to your whatsapp account was never required. this alone won boomers

Slow to adapt to smartphones. Even though it was something that was obviously going to be way better on a smartphone than it ever would be a PC. I wanted it on my phone and they just weren't releasing it. Fucking morons. Every messaging app can do voice and video calls now. You get no credit for being the first to get it right.

for me is AIM

>>105995869
I miss when IM was IM and I could send Facebook messages through AIM

>>105995360
People still used msn messanger when smartphones became popular? I already switched to skype at that point.

>>105996001
I used both. I also used AIM.

>>105994291 (OP)
> Microsoft did a buggy merge between msn and skype.
> Alternative client was removed, workaround was using the web api.
Users started looking for other options.

>>105995360
MS also had a successful mobile OS a decade before google or applel and they couldn't manage to make a decent smartphone, why do you expect it to be any different.
Apparently there was even a MSN messenger version for windows CE PDAs

>>105994291 (OP)
You could have answered your question if you used it at any point in the last 5-10 years