Comment Re:Bigger than you think (Score 1) 188
WhatsApp's claim to fame originally was its ability to run on virtually anything, including the J2ME phones popular in the US and Europe in the mid-2000s.
I'm not so sure about that. ICQ had a J2ME client before Whatsapp. The unique feature it had at the time was how easy it was to set up - it used the phone number and IMEI to authenticate, no user name or password to remember, and the contacts in the phone book automatically become Whatsapp contacts.