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Maybe they took facebook money in order to drop support for MMS? Drive business to facebook. Profit!
by Maxburn 5y ago
Maybe they took facebook money in order to drop support for MMS? Drive business to facebook. Profit!
- netsharc 5y agoHmm, I really don't think MMS is widely used in Switzerland. If Bob has an Android and wants to talk to Alice the iPhone user, Bob is not going to be SMS-ing/MMS-ing Alice, Bob will write Alice on WhatsApp (or Telegram, or Signal, the great WhatsApp-agree-to-our-new-EULA exodus also happened in Europe), which Alice will almost certainly have. Apple has no iMessage-moat in Europe. If you want to measure my certainty: I would bet 1000 Swiss Francs that if you went to the center of Zurich and asked 50 random people who have smartphones if they had one of WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram/Threema, they'd say yes.
- Arainach 5y agoAnd yet if you asked if they had all of them, almost no one would say so. I have friends who have quit Facebook, I have friends fully dedicated to the Apple ecosystem, I have one or two privacy-focused ones who use Signal, and no protocol other than MMS that can talk to all of them.
- DocTomoe 5y agoSure ... but it shapes with your circle of friends. Pick any two of the three, and you will reach virtually anyone. And pure luddites? Well, they don't have smartphones, usually.
- helmholtz 5y agoIt doesn't matter if they don't have all of them. They make their choice. I have whatsapp, but have managed to convince a core group of friends to use Signal. We make do.
- olyjohn 5y agoNobody I know with an iPhone uses signal or WhatsApp. They just use iMessage. I'm constantly bugging my iPhone-owning family and friends to install Signal. Nobody cares. There's a reason the blue / green iMessage bubbles are such a hot topic among the youths these days. It's not because everybody uses 3rd party messengers.
- bonzini 5y agoIn America or Europe?