In the wake of Facebook’s proposed $16 billion takeover of WhatsApp, rival messaging service Skype has stated that the deal is “really exciting” for the wider industry.
Despite the market dominating WhatsApp currently boasting more than 450 million active monthly users (considerably more than Skype’s 300 million users), the Microsoft owned service has suggested that its rival’s Facebook backing could help the progression of the mobile messaging sector as a whole.
“We think [the WhatsApp takeover] is really exciting,” Lara Kingwell, Skype’s Product Marketing Manager for Mobile said speaking with TrustedReviews. “For the industry as a whole it is really dynamic and things are moving really fast.”
As well as helping bolster the industry, Kingwell has claimed the WhatsApp takeover will force Skype into improving its own IM options.
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