It is completely a different approach. If it is in Asia or Malaysia. Any merchant bankers or Venture capitalist will say Whatapps is not profitable. How on earth people will spend USD 19 billions for it. May be Facebook will understand what do you mean by good will business when they started. I am not saying we are completely wrong over here. But if one day our platform is not ready for such a change of mind set about good will business. We will not have anything like this to be created.
In fact unlike China which is learning very quick. From Lenova to Weibo, from wee chat to QQ. Everything is learning quick and fast driven by its own huge populated market. A chance is definitely required to drive technology invention locally. First, it must be investor themselves.
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