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As you get older you'll likely fallback to the default iMessages app. Those others are just fads to me the kids like to use.
by sys_64738 5y ago
As you get older you'll likely fallback to the default iMessages app. Those others are just fads to me the kids like to use.
- entropyie 5y agoWhatsApp is 13 years old, like it or not, it is not a fad. I've seen it used on Nokia's with Symbian and series 40 candy bar phones 10 years ago. Outside the USA it dwarfs iMessage and will continue to do so for a very long time. Everyone in my extended family uses it, from 15 to 85 years old.
- leoedin 5y agoIn the UK everyone uses WhatsApp. Certainly everyone I meet my age or older. Maybe the kids are doing something differently, but I doubt it. iPhone usage just hasn't quite got high enough for iMessage to be seamless. Maybe it's similar in Germany?
- vidarh 5y agoIn the UK too, and yeah, at both my sons primary school and secondary school it was just expected that you had WhatsApp to be added to the year group and class WhatsApp groups. It's to the point where getting an SMS that isn't a notification from a business is really weird. A lot of people even asks what your WhatsApp is rather than what your phone number is, even though they're the same thing.
- distances 5y agoIn which country? I also don't know a single person using iMessage, and the last non-auth SMS I received was years and years ago. It's as good as dead basically.
- ramphastidae 5y agoIt’s not because you’re older or because of fads, it’s because you don’t message anyone outside of the US.
- eertami 5y agoI don't see what age has to do with it. My parents and grandparents message their friends using WhatsApp (in Europe).