A moment ago we learned that Alphabet has become the most valuable company in the world, surpassing Apple, which has held that position since 2011. Alphabet has also reported its financial results, which has caused its shares to rise. and now we find ourselves a little surprised by that agile movement of Google when it transformed into this company last year. An evolution as a company just like what happens to Facebook, which continues to devise ways to continue growing and one of its best decisions was the purchase of WhatsApp. A communication service through text messages that has been evolving in almost two years ever since it was bought by Mark Zuckerberg's company.
Today we know that WhatsApp reaches one billion people just like Gmail. Two apps and services that enter this exclusive club and in which there are already apps such as Search, Android, Maps, Chrome, YouTube and Google Play. The big difference for WhatsApp is being the only one that is not from Google and that does not take as long as Gmail itself. A messaging service in which certain features have been integrated that have turned out to be a success, such as calls. These calls are used by millions of users who relegate to them when they are under a Wi-Fi connection or have a good number of gigabytes in their data quota so they can spend their minutes communicating with their friends or family.
WhatsApp and its one billion users
It had been a while since we had seen a new app that reached those one billion users. So today we have two new ones, Gmail and WhatsApp. It is WhatsApp that has increased in 500 million new users in 2015 alone, a spectacular figure for a service that recently announced the elimination of the annual fee of 1 euro and that soon we will see sounded new features such as the ability that will grant local companies and businesses that their customers can contact them through WhatsApp.
It is Zuckerberg himself who has come to the fore to announce that the WhatsApp user community has doubled since being part of Facebook. Apart from those most striking features, the ability to synchronize call history and images through Google Drive has been included, and surely very soon we will see another of those news that will be of vital importance for the service as well as for its competitors, the video calls.
Gmail at 1.000 billion
Just today Google has announced that Gmail has reached that figure of 1.000 million users. Unlike WhatsApp, Gmail has gone growing steadily since the 900s millones active users in May last year.
Gmail is not the first Google service to reach that figure, although it must be said that it has the advantage that come integrated into millions of smartphones or Android tablets on the planet. Something that differs from WhatsApp, which must be an app that must be installed from the Play Store in most cases.
It is the same Pichai, head of Android, who comments how this growth in Gmail users is mainly due to those who use the service through their phone. One of the curiosities that Pichai shared about Gmail is that 10 percent of Gmail's smart responses, those that are generated automatically, take 10 percent of the total that are made through the mobile version.
In short, two apps that they take much of the attention of millions of users around the world to send emails or manage your inbox in the case of Gmail, while WhatsApp is in charge of communicating with our loved ones and those friends with whom we are preparing the next weekend getaway.
