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I've seen major airport operations in India run off of WhatsApp groupchats and forwards between chats. People will gravitate to what they know lol.

• mrweasel 3y ago
  Oh, that's is terrifying. How is there any oversight into an operation running on WhatsApp?
  • davchana 3y ago
    In India, anybody can get a business account, which allows you to setup a catalogue of things, services, and you can pay inside app through underlying UPI interface (government operated quick guaranteed no-return money transfer). I have booked cars for rental, I have bought grocery, pizza, shoes n stuff.
    • elforce002 3y ago
      That's crazy. I'd never use something like that to order anything but each their own I suppose...
      • mousetree 3y ago
        You're not going to like WeChat then either
      • sharadov 3y ago
        You don't have a choice - in India it's as ubiquitous as paypal is here.
  • dspillett 3y ago
    There isn't. That is why the UK government likes it for their use, but wants to ban or backdoor parts of it (E2EE) for everyone else.
    • smcl 3y ago
      Ah don’t worry they’re claiming they only used it for coffee orders and such ;)
• tinus_hn 3y ago
  Also to what actually works, unlike the Enterprise turd sandwiches they are supposed to use.
• i67vw3 3y ago
  One of the companies I interned was using Whatsapp but then migrated to Teams/Slack. Employees did not like it and after a few months everyone migrated to Whatsapp.