Meta has to pay walkie-talkie app $174M for infringing on its patents

This is absolutely ridiculous.

> Voxer's rights to features such as "find friends"

You mean like any random phpBB forum or the thousands of web dating sites that appeared between the 90s and today?

They don't say in the article what "live" features they are talking about but I guess it's just as ridiculous as this claim.

My Sony Ericsson had a push-to-talk as well as video call features in 2006 and there were internet video streaming apps for J2ME in 2008. Remember ICQ? Same thing.

Did Voxer invent WebRTC (or whatever they use - I bet they didn't even write their own code but used a lib) or any of the underlying internet protocols? Did they invent the concept of live video stream? I really don't think so.