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Exactly. No one is ditching their iPhone. It’s all about the blue text bubbles. If Americans would just switch to WhatsApp or something else like the rest of th

Exactly. No one is ditching their iPhone. It’s all about the blue text bubbles. If Americans would just switch to WhatsApp or something else like the rest of the world we could get past the Android stigma.

lotsofpulp 6y ago
Is the labor used to make an iPhone and different than any other phone? Or any other electronics for that matter? As far as I know, unless you stop consuming electronics completely, you’re not avoiding the labor abuses mining the necessary metals in Central Africa or the labor to manufacture it in Asia.
- corty 6y ago
  There is e.g. Fairphone
philliphaydon 6y ago
WhatsApp is terrible and insecure. Facebook already knows too much about me.
- herbst 6y ago
  So why not Signal? Telegram? Slack? Discord if thats your thing. Or even Email? I mean we do have plenty of choice, many actually caring about security and their users.
  - monocasa 6y ago
    Telegram, Slack, and Discord are also awful for privacy FWIW.
ficklepickle 6y ago
If that's what people care about, then humanity deserves what is coming to it.
- alisonkisk 6y ago
  What's coming? A hedonic exploitation of poor and oppressed humans? The global rich are largely happy to get that.