Benjamin Franklin Though there were messaging apps before whatsapp they were not widely adopted by…

Benjamin Franklin Though there were messaging apps before whatsapp they were not widely adopted by Indians. Skype and other apps required you to have an email id.

There were a lot of people here who didn’t have an email account but had a phone with internet connectivity.

Whatsapp only required you to have a phone number. Hence it was widely adopted. Skype and other apps didn’t reach this scale of adoption here. Even if I was on Skype or on the other apps my friends wouldn’t be on it. The only way to reach them was through SMS.

I hope this makes it clear.