Why did it take off everywhere but the United States?
Why did it take off everywhere but the United States?
Kevin Reed
Joshua Fisher
They are like 20 years behind every other country, as an example they still use sms, fax machines, and checks
Owen Thompson
Because they’re so rich they can all afford iPhones which have iMessage natively built in instead of having to install a third world app just to text.
Imagine green bubbles lmao
Wyatt Russell
we can afford phone service plans that let you text and call people anywhere and don't have to resort to some third party app to send messages to people
Alexander Hernandez
Because service providers resisted Whatsapp hard in America since it would eat into their value and succeeded in blocking it out longer than proper first world countries with actual anti-competitive laws
Nolan Edwards
Because it's clearly data harvesting. Like duh. You use that shit everything you ever do on that device is recorded dumbass. Every dumbass post or call or text it was recorded since you first used that app on it and it's up the cloud shit never going away.
Duh
Charles Sullivan
>Apple may record and store some information related to your use of the Messages app and the iMessage service to operate and improve Apple's products and services: Apple may store information about your use of iMessage
apple.com
Why do americans think apple is pro security? every company sells your data to china and apple isn't any different user
nytimes.com
bbc.com
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very true, they have big paychecks and the tech there is even cheaper, how the fuck is any other country supposed to compete?
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is this true?
Jaxson Carter
Texts have been free for years. No reason to stop using what you're already familiar with I guess
Benjamin Brooks
apple propaganda
Samuel Hill
>is this true?
idk, I just made it up.
I remember in general that service providers used to really rely on texting as a form of revenue, and I think when Whatsapp and other messaging services came out service providers were trying hard to shut them out, like trying to limit data being allocated to these apps or trying to classify them as texts
I can imagine non-American companies were able to stop telcos from doing this clearly anti-competitive behaviour, but America has weak anti-competitive laws and they love allowing companies to keep anachronistic prasctices to gouge customers for as long as possible.
Christopher Hall
Because we have actual phone service so there’s no need
Isaac Watson
US: Snapchat
Japan: Line
Worst Korea: KakaoTalk
China:WeChat
Rest of the world: Meta services
Telegram should've been the standard instead of that shit.
Landon Brooks
It wasn't Meta cancer when it got popular. Amerishitters should have never allowed Kikebook to acquire its competitors.
Kayden Thomas
The truth.
It's annoying. I had two androids, then I got an iPhone and since then all of my family members switched to iPhone too. So now I would hate to lose the ability to facetime my parents, aunts & uncles, grandparents etc. iMessage is neat but I could easily do without it
Yes, I know there are alternative video calling apps, but those boomers do not.
Joseph Gutierrez
>US: Snapchat
Wrong, snapchat does not replace texting. It's a social media.
Tyler Wilson
how can americans live without group chats from whatsapp
Brayden Jones
We dont use fax, Japan does
Jackson Brown
we can afford phones that have group chat capacities built in so we don't have to download some shitty app to send group messages like you do
Levi Green
What do you think your phone company and the NSA do lel
Aiden Hill
Until a year ago Americans couldn't even open webms, lmao.
Colton Lee
only applefags
Isaiah Morales
sms has group chat too
Aaron Bennett
That's a good thing. We need less phoneposters.
Samuel Peterson
I talk to my friends over irc. My phone is for calling my mom
Christopher Gray
It would if it had different bubble colours for android and iphones
Angel Wright
the question is why hasn't telegram replaced whatsapp already? it's infinitely superior
Blake Flores
group chats are not necessarily for friends, they are for all sorts of daily basic shit, like neighbors, your apartment block, work, classes, etc...
Alexander Cooper
...foreigners don't use checks or fax machines?
Joseph Evans
I swear I've had group SMS texts since 2008. And something like 60% of Americans use iPhone (for middle class and above young people it's like 95%) so we all have iMessage.
So do non-Americans not use this app at all? Grim.
Adam Baker
Nope
They also have chips in their card that just lets them scan on the reader without inserting it.
Connor Young
less than 5 % of people here have iphones I think, they usually cost 2x what they do in the US.
Xavier Collins
>all the whitebois are missing out on groupchat shitposting kino
sad!
Jaxson Reed
what do working class americans use?
Luis Rodriguez
you guys use SMS like chats?
it's also free here but it's just annoying and basically a spambox
Oliver Wilson
we have those in most places too
Logan Reed
>checks
People use checks, of course
>fax machines
Is it the 90s?
Easton King
groupchat is not for shitpost, they are for basic daily communication, how the fuck would you know if the elevator in your apartment stopped working or something like that, you need a chat group to let every one who lives there know about it.
Jayden Perez
Checks sometimes, fax nope
Caleb Sullivan
lol this nigga livin the "vecinos" ™ life
youtube.com
Joseph Phillips
>checks
deprecated and insecure, nobody should be using them
Austin Barnes
A lot more android users (esp. amongst older people) but still 50% iPhone. It's millennials who grew up with iPods who feel like they have to use iPhones, we started the le green bubbles meme. Of course zoomers are following suit.
I don't talk to my neighbors.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
It's worth noting that WhatsApp was never heavily marketed here, as there was no need for it (download another app just to text? Why?). I remember Google Hangout being pushed as an SMS/iMessage competitor more than whatsapp.