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The Dauntless One
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It's pretty much default where I live as well. I haven't met someone who doesn't use WhatsApp, iPhone or Android.
Jysin
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I think the big disconnect with whatsapp in the US is the fact cell providers have given unlimited texts for many many years now. Because of this, it just never really caught on. However, the beauty of whatsapp lies in the group chat functions & ability to assign multiple admins. As an expat, every single person I know has used whatsapp since it was released, way before the acquisition by Facebook. The ability to message with friends & family (family group chats) across the world to any country for zero cost was pretty groundbreaking at the time. I actually now use whatsapp voice / video chat more than Skype these days.
If you live in the US and have all American friends and family, I can see how it is limited in use.
If you live in the US and have all American friends and family, I can see how it is limited in use.
Destiny's Paw
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Let them use a Android device and get them to start messing with the Launcher settings. "Where do I sign up"
Ossoi
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errr we have unlimited texts in UK too and have done for years. There's no comparison between whatsapp and text, arguably whatsapp killed text messages here
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Maybe the iphone penetration rate among normal white people means imessage killed it here... I'd imagine if the iphone rate was only 50% instead of 90% (among our friends/people we talk to) we'd be adopting some solution like that as well.
Crone
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I suspect
Cad
is right. For example with my family, they all have iPhone's and have big group chats setup between different family members. It all works perfect for them and there is absolutely no reason for them to switch to WhatsApp. I'm not invited to these groups because I'd fuck shit up bringing an android into the mix. That's a good thing lol.
Cad
is right. For example with my family, they all have iPhone's and have big group chats setup between different family members. It all works perfect for them and there is absolutely no reason for them to switch to WhatsApp. I'm not invited to these groups because I'd fuck shit up bringing an android into the mix. That's a good thing lol.
BrutulTM
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Yeah, iMessage is a dumb reason to use an iPhone when you can use whatsapp or facebook messenger or hangouts and do everything that imessage does AND talk to android users but I know once people get started with something they don't want to change.
I actually love FB messenger. My friends/family have all sorts of chats and groups set up on it and it works great. Also, since everybody has FB you can use it to contact people you barely know without getting their cell number or email or whatever else. The only exceptions are the one branch of my family that uses iPhones and they're always trying to talk to us with fucking MMS like it's 2004.
I actually love FB messenger. My friends/family have all sorts of chats and groups set up on it and it works great. Also, since everybody has FB you can use it to contact people you barely know without getting their cell number or email or whatever else. The only exceptions are the one branch of my family that uses iPhones and they're always trying to talk to us with fucking MMS like it's 2004.
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It's not really that I'd mind using WhatsApp, its the 300 other people I'd have to convince. There's a shit ton of inertia.
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Noodleface
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Not that I send anything salacious but it just seems like sending everything through facebook is like INHERENTLY NOT PRIVATE. For some reason it just gives me the willies.
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A lot of those things are critical mass driven.. if 50% of the people had whatsapp already, the other 50% would jump in. When it's 20%/20%/20%.. everyone uses the built in because who wants to have 5 different messaging apps?
Noodleface
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iMessage is awful. When I switched to Android I lost like a week of text messages to the twisted nether because even though I released my number it was for some reason stuck. Even if I went back to apple one day id use something else
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Yea that has been an issue for a while, because your number is still flagged in Apple's servers as being on iMessage so it attempts to deliver the messages that way. I think it's mostly fixed now because iMessage falls back to SMS if iMessage fails to deliver. But I had a friend that dropped off of Apple and went to android and we had the same issue. For a while I had to literally turn off iMessage in order to text him.