The day we launched Telegram last year, Jan Koum shared a snarky remark with a Russian magazine: “Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and Whatsapp, he never had and will never have original ideas”. I didn’t comment on it then, and am not going to do it today. Instead, I’ll have a look at Telegram and tell you guys what features WhatsApp users will enjoy within a year or so: