It’s Toasted • Hacker News Board

Re: It’s Toasted

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Post by BizarroLand » Fri, May 01, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

thrownthatway wrote: post #9

the_gipsy wrote: post #3

Facebook. They're still Facebook to me. Rebrand all you want, you're just Facebook, incapable of doing anything beyond buying WhatsApp and Instagram.

They did conjure up some hardware along the way too.

Did they? I know they bought oculus, but that's like saying Elon built Tesla when Tesla was already being built before he showed up to throw money at it.

Re: It’s Toasted

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Post by finghin » Sat, May 02, 2026, 9:15 AM UTC

jeraldbenny wrote: post #35

finghin wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WhatsApp is the “best” Meta app by far. It does just offer an easy, secure way of contacting people using their phone number, through text, voice, images, video. None of their other apps come close. It doesn’t even look like a Meta product to me.

Meta acquired WhatsApp, thats why its the best

As the other user pointed out, it definitely stands out among other product acquisitions.

Re: It’s Toasted

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Post by Timwi » Sun, May 03, 2026, 10:50 PM UTC

finghin wrote: post #33

unmole wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UX and feature set of WhatsApp is much better than SMS. India has practically free SMS but WhatsApp remains pervasive.

WhatsApp is the “best” Meta app by far. It does just offer an easy, secure way of contacting people using their phone number, through text, voice, images, video. None of their other apps come close. It doesn’t even look like a Meta product to me.

What makes WhatsApp superior to Telegram and/or Signal?

Re: It’s Toasted

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Post by thrownthatway » Mon, May 04, 2026, 8:34 AM UTC

BizarroLand wrote: post #51

thrownthatway wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did conjure up some hardware along the way too.

Did they? I know they bought oculus, but that's like saying Elon built Tesla when Tesla was already being built before he showed up to throw money at it.

Oh yeah true. I sit corrected.