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ALee on Nov 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grow Faster with YesGraph's iOS SDK

With Facebook and Apple effectively owning a number of viral channels on mobile, I wonder how you think of the larger problems of channels in general. It's not like the past when a multi-friend selector was easily available. Will you guys be integrated with the chat platforms (FB, WhatsApp, WeChat, etc.) or do you think old school is still cool?

ivankirigin on Nov 3, 2015 [–]

Apple doesn't own anything. SMS is open.

I'm very worried about closed communication channels like Whatsapp and Facebook messenger. They could really really hurt app developers.

A brief history of social media: Facebook is cool, then Facebook needs to be paid.

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