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People wanted free text messaging, so they used whatsapp. If they were so great it would have caught on in the US, but it didn’t.
by chrischen 9y ago
People wanted free text messaging, so they used whatsapp.
If they were so great it would have caught on in the US, but it didn’t.
- paganel 9y agoIt caught on in almost all the rest of the world but because it didn't catch on in the US it means that it is shit. Yeah, talk about living in a bubble... Back on topic, I've avoided using WhatsApp for about a year, even though everyone around me was using it. When I've finally gave in I found out that it was really, really easy to use, even on my relatively crappy iPhone4 (I'm talking about ~2014-2015, at which point that type of phone was seen as a museum artifact; I'm still using it). Sending photos was damn easy, notifications were always "right" (not the crappy shit that Skype calls "notifications") and the "last seen" future was the central point of many personal relationships (still is). Unfortunately WhatsApp stopped functioning for me about one year and a half ago (after the FB acquisition), but you can't dismiss it just because it hasn't caught up in the States.
- mereo 9y ago> If they were so great it would have caught on in the US, but it didn’t. The US is not at the centre of the world.
- Markoff 9y agobut China is, they have it literally in their name Zhongguo (Middle earth/country), although Whatsapp didnt caught there for other reasons, since it's very skewed market
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