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Do people in the US really use Apple Messages? I've never encountered it here in Europe. It's basically all just WhatsApp or - if you're in more "tech-y" circle

• jamil7 3y ago
  Even as an iOS user/developer it’s hard for me to imagine people choosing to use messages over one of the alternatives, I don’t get this about the US. Is it really a status thing?
• kwanbix 3y ago
  Same, I don't get why would people use Apple Messages that is only for android over Whatsapp. What is the advantage of APple Messages?
• throw2awaymay 3y ago
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• 121789 3y ago
  Yes. It’s the default messaging app for iOS, which is very popular in the US. It has strong network effects now. No one I know in the US uses WA unless they are immigrants. Everyone else is iMessage, snap, or SMS for android
• Jtsummers 3y ago
  SMS/MMS is still (sadly) quite common in the US and on iPhones that means using the built-in Messages app. So if you want a non-SMS/MMS that's also widely used in the US you get it "for free" by using iMessages from the same application if you're an iPhone user. And this chat also works with your non-iPhone contacts because it switches to SMS/MMS for them. For whatever reason WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and others never won out on Android in the US so the Android users didn't bring along their iPhone using network to those clients either (in bulk). Google of course has lost out because of their own foolishness: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...