Many years ago, about eight years if I'm not mistaken. Facebook bought WhatsApp. At the same time that the news was released, many of us started thinking badly and using alternatives, such as Line or even Viber, but today it is still the king of free messaging applications. Not even Zuckerberg himself knew what they would do next, and that is that making money with a free service is not easy. Among what this WhatsApp Business has done, but its main competition has another idea: Premium Telegram.
I think no one doubts that Telegram is a much better messaging application than WhatsApp, but the second came first and is the most popular and used. Even so, unless it is reading our messages, learning what interests us and targeting advertising, WhatsApp would not be profitable for the new Meta. The CEO of Telegram had another idea: in chats with thousands of users, from time to time a advertising message, and this is doing (bringing in more money) better than they would have expected. Now, just yesterday, Pavel Durov confirmed that will launch Telegram Premium. Do we have to worry?
Telegram Premium will add those who pay, but will not remove those who do not
At least in theory. The idea does not seem entirely original. Discord already has a paid option where users get more than non-payers, but you can jump in and chat for free with no problem. But the existence of Telegram Premium will not only be good for those who pay; we will all benefit.
In summary, Durov tells the following: Telegram is a messaging application that is second to none, and they add new useful features with each new version. Mention here that they are always up to date, and that it was the first app to support Plasma 5.18 notifications. There are users who want less limits, more possibilities, and if it is done for free, the servers could not support it and the company would have losses. So they have created a new possibility, the well-known Telegram Premium, with fewer limitations.
Although in his message he has not given details, there is a paragraph that gives clues about what is coming:
- The free app will continue to receive new features, as before. I would say that nothing will be noticed in this regard.
- Premium users will be able to send “extra-long” files, and free users will be able to see them. Looks This means that Premium users will be able to send files larger than 2GB. By speculating, I repeat, by speculating and imagining options, paying users may have a kind of telegra.ph integrated into your channels. For those who do not know, telegra.ph is a website where anyone can publish articles, adding images, videos...
- Special reactions and stickers, which initially will only be available to Premium users, but free users will be able to use the same reactions in publications where they have been added.
Prices?
No further details have been given, only confirmation that Telegram Premium will arrive. It is not known what price it will have, but it is expected that it will not be very high. I could be wrong, but one of the reasons to pay that Durov gives us is to support the project, and if this is all we want, the price cannot be like a subscription to Netflix (although Discord does have a plan with a similar price...) . Still, more details are expected in the coming days. Finally, a question: would you pay to be able to send larger files, stickers and special reactions or to support the project?