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WhatsApp Reaches 100 Million Monthly Users in the United States
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Disgusting. How was the merger of Facebook and Whatsapp allowed in the first place is beyond me. FB Messenger and WhatsApp are the most popular messenger services in the western world and are coming from the same company. The illusion of choice.
There you have it. If iMessages was cross platform, people would use it, but it doesn't, so people will pivot for the second best thing.
Also, Northamerica SMS roots are deep, deeper than Europe, Asia and Latinamerica. Disgusting or not, the people already made its choice: $1 a year was too much.
I did pay $1 shortly before they were bought by Facebook. But then everyone already had WhatsApp and didn't want to change. I use Signal as often as possible but non tech savvy people are impossible to persuade to switch.
I simply uninstalled WA. I have signal, threema and as a sort of compromise towards the average users I also have a Foss telegram client. If the wa users dont also have either of these, tough shit. Send me a text then I guess
I'd love to but the consequence would just be that I'm missing even more from family, club etc.
WA completely replaced SMS here from the very beginning. There were phone providers with subs where WA traffic was free when flatrates weren't common.