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		runako on July 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US smartphone shipments fall sharply, but Android ... > mum This is perhaps a giveaway that you're not in the US, where WhatsApp is generally not something people use to communicate. (Anecdotally, I have seen it primarily used among people who have families outside the US.) FaceTime, on the other hand, is widely used here.

realusername on July 28, 2023 | [–]

Yeah, iMessage just lost in Europe and pretty much everywhere outside the US.

Part of the issue is the Apple only lock-in, part of the issue is the branding, being branded as an SMS app when SMS are dead certainly doesn't help.

gcbirzan on July 28, 2023 | [–]

But he was talking about how hard it is to set up, not whether people use it.

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