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I wonder what markets WhatsApp is important to. In the UK quite a few people used it while briefly lived there, but in the US, Thailand, Vietnam, et.al. I didn'
by toastal 6y ago
I wonder what markets WhatsApp is important to. In the UK quite a few people used it while briefly lived there, but in the US, Thailand, Vietnam, et.al. I didn't see anyone using or ever talking about it.
- zem 6y agoit's huge in india. a phone that did not support it would definitely be a non-starter.
- abrowne 6y agoEuropean countries.
- FelipeCortez 6y agoIt is _the_ chat app in Brazil. Brazil is pretty big
- thaumasiotes 6y agoAdding on to the other comments, I understand it is the default messaging app in Australia / New Zealand. More roughly, my understanding of the messaging space was: - USA: Facebook Messenger - Japan, Taiwan: LINE - China: WeChat - Everywhere Else in the World: WhatsApp And the comments here seem to basically bear that out.
- zhte415 6y agoI find it curious a lot of friends are getting back to Skype, for personal use, across continents, and not CorporateSkype/OC. Is this a huge selection bias thing? Don't know. Several have also recently deleted GMail.
- Firehawke 6y agoI'm seeing a lot of push towards Discord in the USA as well; it's a bit awkward in that kind of usage, but when basically everyone is already using Discord on PC it's not hard to convince people to use the phone app.
- toastal 6y agoThailand is very much LINE and a close second is Messenger
- shp0ngle 6y agoIndia. I'm pretty sure they mean India.
- sobani 6y agoIn the Netherlands WhatsApp is so ubiquitous that it always surprises me to hear other countries are not 100% WA. (Besides China, for obvious reasons it doesn't surprise me China has their own app.) The only people I know who don't use WhatsApp are very privacy focused and therefor use Signal.
- toastal 6y agoThese answers have been insightful. Not sure why asking got me downvotes.