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Wait, you use iMessage instead of Whatsapp in the US? I tried iMessage with some friends and I feel like the experience is so much worse, not to mention not hav
by s1k3s 4y ago
Wait, you use iMessage instead of Whatsapp in the US? I tried iMessage with some friends and I feel like the experience is so much worse, not to mention not having my entire contact list there.
- cornstalks 4y agoAnecdotal, but I don’t know a single person who uses WhatsApp. Everyone I know with an iOS device uses iMessage here in the US.
- akmarinov 4y agoI use iMessage by default with all my iOS buddies and Viber for everyone else. iMessage is just a lot easier. All Meta products are privacy violating trash and wouldn't use them at all.
- colinmhayes 4y agoYes, pretty much everyone uses iMessage here. If you have a non iPhone and try to message an iPhone user you're stuck with slow as molasses, featureless sms which is a huge pain in the ass.
- danaris 4y agoTo be pedantic, and thus clear: "iMessage" isn't an app. It's Apple's messaging protocol, that only works between Apple devices. "Messages" is the name of the app, and it hosts both iMessage conversations and vanilla SMS conversations. Personally, I can't imagine being willing to use a proprietary messaging app owned by Facebook for any significant part of my online communication. Using Messages, my contacts aren't "in an app", they belong to my phone (and to my iCloud account, since I use that service). Any messaging app that I am willing to grant permission to has access to them. Also, iMessage conversations are end-to-end encrypted, and Apple has shown, repeatedly over the years, that they have no interest in mining them for saleable data.
- kyriakos 4y agoThe only thing SMS is used in Europe for is 2FA and spam. I don't remember the last time a real person messaged me via SMS.