Tried this app last night. Worked amazingly well. Free calls to others who have the app on Iphones. Fantastic. The mobile carriers like TNT in USA, and Orange and the others in Europe must be in tears.
Is there a catch? Not that I know of now, but my guess, since there are no free lunches, is that there will be ads and spam-calls coming in the future. Then Viber will launch an ad free premium app for a small fee.
Here's a demo clip:
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Hi,
This is Viber Media.
First and foremost thank you for the kind words about the app. We're happy to see that you think it works "amazingly well". We put a lot of work and all too many sleepless nights to get there...
Regarding the "catch" - there really is none. Viber's model is pretty straight forward - it's a freemium model. We offer the basic service (what you get now + SMS/Text + whatever else we add in the future) for free and on top of that offer value added services for a fee.
Some users may choose to go with the value added services, some won't. As long as the money we make from the value added services can cover our costs and leave us with a few dollars to spare, we should be good.
As we said before:
Viber will not run ads, will not spam you and will not do anything "bad".
We truly believe in being the "good guys". We think it's a nice thing to do and it also makes good business sense.
Thank you for using Viber!
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