The local WhatsApp competitor that doesn't use data

[quovadis]

Data is not unaffordable.

Yet people flock to an app that doesn't use their data ...

 

[zulucat]

Yet people flock to an app that doesn't use their data ...

Because why pay if you can get it free. Imagine if you could get free petrol, would you still go pay for it?

 

[Speedster]

Because why pay if you can get it free. Imagine if you could get free petrol, would you still go pay for it?

South Africans are super cheapskates, we'll do anything to save a few cents. This really struck home with me a couple of years ago when McD had a campaign selling Big Mac meals for R21 for a day. People queued for hours to save R20.

 

[Vorastra]

Then you shouldn't comment in a thread that is about exactly that.


Then perhaps maybe you should find a thread with that discussion and not polluting others with irrelevant advice.

just saying...

lmao I should comment wherever I want.
This is a thread about a messaging app, so I gave an alternative.

 

[Lawnchairman]

Well that escalated quickly

Back to topic this is not worth an install.

 

[quovadis]

Because why pay if you can get it free. Imagine if you could get free petrol, would you still go pay for it?

Perhaps the question should be - would the app exist if data was free? There's a nuance to my argument.

 

[Vorastra]

Perhaps the question should be - would the app exist if data was free? There's a nuance to my argument.

That's the wrong question. It may still exist, but would it be as popular.

 

[charlieharper]

Scrap that, not available on iOS...

iOS users rarely find themselves without airtime or data so not a huge target market.

 

[quovadis]

That's the wrong question. It may still exist, but would it be as popular.

Exactly but would they then exist in the first place? I'm pretty sure it would've been part of the pitch.

 

[Ghost64]

iOS users rarely find themselves without airtime or data so not a huge target market.

If that’s their thinking then they obviously losing out.
The SP customer centric apps are zero rated on iOS.
Even if it were not free allow us access at least.

 

[C4Cat]

Data is not unaffordable.

That clearly is relative to how much a particular person can afford. Many people in SA are so poor that putting aside even R10 a week for data is literally unaffordable.

 

[Danie_V]

I do love the idea of this, especially for the really poor who cannot keep buying data, but a pity it does not cover iOS as it is not then universal, and of course this "market research service, which the company says is being used by the major market research companies in South Africa" does raise some flags in terms of what sort of metadata goes to third parties.

 

[cyb3rt]

While advertising is a component of Moya’s revenue model

Read up to here, and came to the comments for a laugh

 

[swim]

Dreamers

 

[backstreetboy]

If that’s their thinking then they obviously losing out.
The SP customer centric apps are zero rated on iOS.
Even if it were not free allow us access at least.

Lol Android has 90% + local marketshare. Why would / should they cater for the 10%? Reason number 672 why I prefer Android anyway.

 

[Sapphiron]

You don't pay for WhatsApp either so still the product?

Correct.

 

[Easter Bunny]

maybe mybb should go through this app's tos (teehee!) and explain in non-legal english what they're doing with all the user data they've so graciously agreed to pay for.