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Its because getting people to download and sign up for another app is friction. Everyone already SMS in america because its free, unlike other countries where y
by vinyl7 3y ago
Its because getting people to download and sign up for another app is friction. Everyone already SMS in america because its free, unlike other countries where you have to pay per message.
I have friends from Africa and India, and they use whats-app when communicating with people in their home country because it costs money to send regular SMS.
- wkat4242 3y agoSMS is also free on most of Europe's plans. But apps are just much nicer. Encryption, photos (MMS really sucks). Easily having a group chat which is really a pain with SMS. Sending files... History on all my devices, full scroll back. SMS is just so outdated. The only problem with the apps is that people use different ones. But I use matrix with bridges to unifi them all into one. Very much like beeper.com .
- kyriakos 3y agoSMS here is used for spam and 2FA. Even the government and utilities companies use viber for many things.