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I'll never understand why so many people prefered WhatsApp over anything that already existed previously and even worked better.
by hudell 11y ago
I'll never understand why so many people prefered WhatsApp over anything that already existed previously and even worked better.
- piyushpr134 11y agobecause their product was and is the best.
- aianus 11y agoHow on earth is it better than Facebook Messenger?
- themoonbus 11y agoI don't need a Facebook account to use it.
- jzzskijj 11y agoBecause you can reach your friends and loved ones with WA. It is quite simple. You can make a better IM with fewer people, when you don't have bloat like stickers market and celebrity chats. And don't try to push people to buy those stickers in every possible menu. (Hi Viber).
- aianus 11y agoWA? I'm not familiar with that acronym.
- tome 11y agoErr, WhatsApp?
- aianus 11y agoThanks, I feel dumb. Although that makes his argument "WhatsApp is good because you can use it to keep in touch with friends and family" which is meaningless.
- tome 11y agoIf it makes you feel any better I had the same question and had to look around for context!
- jzzskijj 11y agoHow do you mean meaningless? What do you do with a "good" IM app, if your loved ones aren't using it? The most of the relatives and friends already have WhatsApp installed and are using it. Can't contact them with Telegram, IRC, HipChat, Viber, Skype, etc.
- aianus 11y agoWell, that's a different argument. You could use hip chat to talk to your family and keep in touch, they just don't have it installed already. Anyways, Facebook has more users than WhatsApp. Where do you live that people don't have Facebook? What is the advantage of having a WhatsApp account instead of or in addition to a Facebook account?
- piyushpr134 11y agoTo elaborate, there are many reasons 1. They have a no ads policy which is a really godsend thing when other messengers had stickers, games and just plain annoying ads. 2. The ones that did not, for ex Google etc were not really made for phones. They understood the importance of using your contacts as social graph really really well. 3. They almost never experienced outages. 4. Had sensible defaults. 5. Their apps are lightweight (memory and cpu wise) compared to amount of time one spends on it. 6. Had no api and generally very low spam compared to sms. SMS has really high spam in the developing world. 7. Rich media compared to SMS and no character restrictions I think west really hates it as most of the people there have iphone and they had this $1 signup which made it unpopular there. They never had that on android which made it a darling of non-west
- aianus 11y agoFacebook Messenger has none of those problems and is better in every way than WhatsApp.
- davidw 11y agoYeah, I've always used Google chat, which works from my computer too (I can type way faster with a keyboard). I do like Erlang, though.