![]() After the installation you will have to enter the phone number, to which will be sent an SMS message with the code, which is needed to activate the application. The installation process is almost standard and does not require the intervention of specialists. Besides, Whatsapp is not a free app - after first year of free usage you will have to pay money. But ofcourse Whatsapp is less powerful and has its minuses: it can only be installed on a mobile device, which has a SIM card. Another popular application, with which Viber is often compared - WhatsApp. ![]() By the way, at the end of 2013 there were about 280 million users of the program, the application translated into more than 20 languages. Imagine that on your laptop installed a program that allows you make free calls to other users and applications, to share with them test messages, photos, video and audio files. But in the shortest possible time the application has become so popular that the developers could not help creating a version adapted for user’s desktops and laptops. Viber has really worked on innovating itself and adding more platforms, all the time.Viber for a laptop is a version of the acclaimed application that was originally intended for users of smartphones and tablets. "It's a cool app, but they haven't really innovated themselves. Marco also took a sideswipe at the one of the dominant over-the-top (OTT) messaging clients, WhatsApp, for not adding more features over the last few years and concentrating primarily on the smooth-running of its group-messaging service. Viber claims to have a wide geographic footprint but some of its biggest user bases are in Southeast Asia, Hungary and Ireland. If you're looking at the trend today for the younger generation, they use Facebook less and messaging more." "The demarcation between social and communication doesn't exist. "We do look at Viber eventually as a platform," said Marco. ![]() Marco says there are other plans for revenue-generating services, including the possibility of augmenting Viber into a platform to buy and sell third-party applications, but he would not give further details. ![]() Instead he is opting for a freemium-model to make cash, with extra services such as "premium stickers" for messaging. Viber will not charge a fee to download its application or for basic services, and Marco says there are no plans to introduce ads. "We are going to generate revenue later this year, through value-added services," Marco said. "It's not a cheap operation," he said, adding that Viber employs 120 people, the workforce being divided between Israel and Minsk, Belarus. In fact its founder and CEO, Talmon Marco, said friends and family of the Cyprus-based company's founders had helped put $20 million into the company. So far, his company has no venture capital investors and has yet to book any revenue. Marco said Viber had spent the more than a year gutting its back-end system to achieve new features like device-to-desktop call transfers. Viber says audio-file sending is on its way, as is video calling through its mobile app. ![]() It also unveiled a number of new features, including a beta version of desktop-to-desktop video calls and the ability to send short videos. The company also announced it had hit more than 200 million registered users, putting in the big leagues with mobile messaging services WhatsApp (more than 200 million active users globally) and WeChat (roughly 300 million, largely in China). "With Skype you can't transfer a call," said Marco. That means if you call someone on Viber and they have both the desktop and mobile app open, both devices will ring and they can transfer a call between the two. Viber does not require a user ID - users register with their mobile phone number. ![]()
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