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I've only found a use for WhatsApp when traveling. No one I know, in the US or Canada, uses it regularly.
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WhatsApp Reaches 100 Million Monthly Users in the United States
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Telegram sucks.
I've only found a use for WhatsApp when traveling. No one I know, in the US or Canada, uses it regularly.
100 million? This is great news! As someone living in the USA, I really look forward to asking people IRL how many of their friends and family they've added on WhatsApp.
...and then they'll ask "uh.... WHAT app?" because there's 233 million people in the USA who aren't on it.
...and then they'll ask "uh.... WHAT app?" because there's 233 million people in the USA who aren't on it.
Text, photo’s, videos, phone calls, videoconferencing… all the things iMessage is doing but cross form compatibility. Apple opening up iMessage is too little too late. Another error on behalf of Timmy.
International texting is expensive... very expensive.
Nobody knows or uses iMessage in Europe. WhatsApp is the standard, like Spotify. Those apps will slowly erode apples apps in the us too.100 million? This is great news! As someone living in the USA, I really look forward to asking people IRL how many of their friends and family they've added on WhatsApp.
...and then they'll ask "uh.... WHAT app?" because there's 233 million people in the USA who aren't on it.
I find that surprising. Outside of business and international communication, most people I know never even heard of WhatsApp.. or they did but it was because of scammers.
I think Meta missed an opportunity not to advertise its E2E encryption and compatibility while Apple was pushing its Privacy ads. Seen a lot of Messenger video ads instead. Missed an even bigger opportunity by not pushing it before the US carriers started touting their 'Unlimited' plans.
I think Meta missed an opportunity not to advertise its E2E encryption and compatibility while Apple was pushing its Privacy ads. Seen a lot of Messenger video ads instead. Missed an even bigger opportunity by not pushing it before the US carriers started touting their 'Unlimited' plans.
It’s free of charge. Why you think it’s costing you money?
I use both iMessage and WhatsApp in the UK. Apple should have created an iMessage app for all devices — perhaps they still will?
And? According this thread (and other sites), WhatsApp use used more international than texting or iMessage.
WhatsApp is the standard over here and in every European country. I also use it with friends living in Toronto.
Telegram is so 2017. Since Covid, there's only conspiracy nuts and drug dealers left on there. Isn't it Signal for normal people, Discord for younger ones and Whatsapp for Karen and other people who don't care?
SMS is absolutely not free for me in the US and my family in Canada..for them or me.
We don't use WhatsApp, but since there are some androids in the mix, we use Messenger.
That’s what they’re going to do if I read the possibilities of iOS 18. But it’s too little too late here.
WhatsApp is like iMessage but instead of iMessage WhatsApp works cross platforms and is free of charge. Have an internet connection? It works.
For over a decade now, WhatsApp has been a major, dominating force outside of the USA.
And for well over a decade, it's been entirely irrelevant in the USA. Why? Honestly, who knows? But I really don't see it changing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll see a change. Like iTunes was a standard for music more than a decade ago… Spotify took over. iMessage only works between Apple devices and ultimately that is what will kill it. Thanks Timmy for the inconvenience and lack of vision.
I was talking about the reason to use WhatsApp instead of standard texting.
Not surprising. WhatsApp actually has cross-platform support; literally the one absolutely essential feature for a messaging platform.
A messaging platform that fails at communicating with a significant portion of the population is essentially worthless in comparison. Even if it has features that would otherwise be nice, it’s failing at its primary purpose; communication.
A messaging platform that fails at communicating with a significant portion of the population is essentially worthless in comparison. Even if it has features that would otherwise be nice, it’s failing at its primary purpose; communication.
In the US and Canada, the majority.
Why? Because when you text in iMessage to a friend or colleague who uses android… the text automatically gets an sms? The green and blue bubble?
The US has over 330 million people.
Most people I know would use Facebook Messenger before WhatsApp.
Interesting its still apparently gaining marketshare in the U.S.. In the U.S. Facebook / Meta Messenger is the biggest marketshare 3rd party message app (as it is in Canada). But most of the rest of the world its WhatsApp (Facebook certainly shouldn't have been allowed to buy WhatsApp way back when while Facebook had its own message app (Messenger these days).
Would be interesting if the network effect of most of the rest of the world will gradually bring the U.S. and Canada in line on WhatsApp over time. Would def prefer Signal or a multiplatform iMessage but the ability to gain that marketshare seems like it sailed many, many years ago...with Zuck swallowing it up on nearly every country (between WhatsApp mostly, but Facebook Messenger is most of the remaining countries) its pretty astounding when you look at it.
Would be interesting if the network effect of most of the rest of the world will gradually bring the U.S. and Canada in line on WhatsApp over time. Would def prefer Signal or a multiplatform iMessage but the ability to gain that marketshare seems like it sailed many, many years ago...with Zuck swallowing it up on nearly every country (between WhatsApp mostly, but Facebook Messenger is most of the remaining countries) its pretty astounding when you look at it.
Because it’s the standard/default. No one in the US has a reason to use WhatsApp.