WhatsApp drops subscription fee, goes completely free

Unlike most popular messaging apps, WhatsApp, the messaging service that Facebook bought in 2014, charges a $1 annual subscription fee after your first year of using the app. The idea here was to charge a small fee in lieu of serving up ads.
Apparently, it hasn’t worked out as well as the company hoped: On Monday, the company announced that it was dropping the annual fee and would become a completely free service for end users.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please cli