{"id":656869,"date":"2013-05-08T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=496808"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:35:35","slug":"messaging-apps-bold-new-plan-cut-deals-to-be-preloaded-onto-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656869","title":{"rendered":"Messaging apps\u2019 bold new plan: Cut deals to be preloaded onto phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/messaging-app-strategy-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/whatsapp-iphone.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Messaging App Strategy Analysis\" title=\"Messaging App Strategy Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/24\/nokia-asha-210-analysis-whatsapp-462608\/\">Nokia launched a WhatsApp phone that featured a special button<\/a> that gives direct access to the messaging app. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-57582108-93\/path-strikes-sprint-deal-to-come-pre-loaded-on-samsung-galaxy-s4-htc-one-and-torque\/?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=News-Internet&amp;Media=&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Path has cut a deal with Sprint<\/a> to become a preloaded app in selected <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc\">HTC<\/a> phones. The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/01\/android-messaging-apps-google-play\/\">messaging app rivalry between half a dozen of major contenders is heating up<\/a> as WhatsApp, Path, LINE, Tango, KakaoTalk, Viber and Kik vie for attention. Until now, major carriers have resisted supporting messaging apps too much, afraid of undermining their SMS volumes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/messaging-app-strategy-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/xMgqBiscJdo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Nokia launched a WhatsApp phone that featured a special button that gives direct access to the messaging app. Now Path has cut a deal with Sprint to become a preloaded app in selected Samsung and HTC phones. The messaging app rivalry between half a dozen of major contenders is heating up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}