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JUST IN CASE there was any doubt over WhatsApp’s popularity, the app announced it had its most successful day yesterday with 64 billion messages sent during April Fools Day (For anyone confused, the reason why outbound messages is much larger than inbound is because it includes sending the same message to groups).
The app, which currently has more than 465 million users – 320 million of which are daily active users – has been steadily growing since Facebook announced it would be purchasing the app.
But it’s not the only messaging app to experience its own records. One of its main rivals, Line, announced it passed the 400 million registered user mark yesterday, having only crossed the 300 million mark back in November.
The makers say the amount of daily new users has reached 1.7 million per day, and the number of countries with over 10 million registered users rose to 10, including the US, Korea, Mexico and Malaysia.
As for messages, it’s set its own records for most chat messages sent (10 billion per day), sticker messages (1.8 billion per day) and phone calls made (over 12 billion per day). However, it didn’t reveal how many of those 400 million are active users.
And finally, Telegram, an app that also benefited from WhatsApp’s deal with Facebook, announced a few days ago that it now has 35 million monthly active users, while the last announcement from Viber showed it had 280 million registered users – 100 million monthly active users.
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Some bigger computer companies built in items to keep the mainframes at a certain speed then charged for speeding them up. An engineer would go out and remove a part which was like a restrictor on a car thus allowing the computer go faster. Charging plenty of money for doing so.
Most things have built in obsolescence now.
But car companies do the same thing. Same engine giving different power (or emissions cough VW) outputs depending on the software. Pay a mechanic to re-map the engine to get more power and sometimes more fuel efficiency from the engine.
I’m not aware of a remap ever giving more power and increased fuel efficiency, you normally sacrifice one for the other, so not quite the same
You really wonder eh
This is why I put clean Ubuntu installations on my machines…
Installed linux mint yesterday on a VM as I normally use Mac and Ubuntu, mint is not a bad OS for anyone jumping across from Windows
I bought a new laptop from Dell recently with a “Killer” Nic. No linux drivers :( WIndows 10 makes me cry. So the laptop is using a wifi dongle until I can find time to work a solution.
Wouldn’t happen if ruth coppinger was at the helm :-o
All these things are easy to find if you have anything about pcs and can usually be fixed easily so that isnt the problem the problem is if yhe wrong person finds it
To be fair.. DELL rarely make this type of mistake
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