Facebook company holds the largest services of messenger and social network From the world, at this time. Like a short reminder, in 2014 Facebook bought Whatsapp Messenger for the huge $ 19 billion, after only two years ago, in 2012 bought the application Instagram cu $ 1 billion. Huge amounts that Facebook has paid to increase their portfolio and to take over from each application that you can import into Facebook social network services.
In a recent interview with the BBC, Mark Zuckerberg, said Facebook intends to bring the services to one place Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger. It will be a long process up to the three merger services, but it is a plan that Facebook has implemented. After completing the merge of WhatsApp, Instagram and Mesenger, users will be able to communicate with each other, being enough for a single service. Specifically, a user who installed only the Instagram application will be able to send a message to WhatsApp. This is impossible at the moment. It is not known if WhatsApp will not become a "base" that integrates the three services, nor how exactly this bridge will be done.
This combination of the three services has already started and will most likely be made until the end of 2019. Once launched the version that allows the communication between the three services, the Facebook company will no longer have to maintain three applications, but only one. An exigen bubble for Facebook developers.
At the moment, Mark Zuckerberg declares that the three applications will remain self -employed, without affecting users. In other words, whoever wants to use only one of the three applications, will be able to do it so far.
However, I did not bet on this in the long run. At least not for the WhatsApp application, which at the moment does not bring much profit to the company. If on Facebook Messenger and Instagram there are advertisements that Facebook monetizes, we can not say about WhatsApp. The application has over 1.5 billion users globally, and the project by which it is trying to monetize is the version for the business environment. WhatsApp Business.
Will WhatsApp close? It is unlikely that this will happen entirely, but we are sure that important changes will be brought, and the users will not be very excited.
As A very good alternative of WhatsApp, iPhone, iPad or Mac owners have Apple's messaging service. IMessage.
