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The bubble is a US thing primarily. Not because Americans are uniquely prone to it, but because iPhones are not as common outside of the US. But don't worry no
by llampx 6y ago
The bubble is a US thing primarily. Not because Americans are uniquely prone to it, but because iPhones are not as common outside of the US.
But don't worry non-Americans, people are judging you on the basis of how you dress, eat, walk and talk and deciding silently whether to let you in their social circle or not.
- vmception 6y agoYes and WhatsApp is not as popular in the US, with messaging being very fragmented between a variety of other Facebook products.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoWhatsApp was a game changer for people that had international contacts. Before WhatsApp, all the mobile networks (at least in the US) charged exorbitant amounts of money for international SMS and MMS. Then, WhatsApp came and it was free and cross platform, compressed images and video to send them quick with decent quality, and free of spam. Absolutely perfect execution, in my opinion. If it was not owned by Facebook, I’d probably pay a considerable amount for it if it promised security and privacy.
- sumedh 6y ago> Absolutely perfect execution, in my opinion. There were no usernames with watsapp, its just your phone number, its so easy that even my mom can use it.
- patja 6y agoAll it asks is to hand over all your private contacts. For me that is a ridiculously high price.
- ChrisArchitect 6y agothey owe a huge part of success intially to tricking people into what you describe -- that it's a replacement/better than SMS -- that it's "free". When it was simply that ppl couldn't tell difference between SMS network and Internet. And using phone numbers as accounts got a ton of people in non-American areas to use it (also north american texting rates crazy cheap unlike alot of the whatsapp-popular countries). Ridiculous. When all it is is another internet messaging app.
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