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> Just not as bad an issue in Europe I guess. The iMessage dominance is a uniquely American issue. In the most of the world people don't use it. Instead, mult
by mrtksn 3y ago
> Just not as bad an issue in Europe I guess.
The iMessage dominance is a uniquely American issue.
In the most of the world people don't use it. Instead, multiplatform apps are the norm. It's not realistic to expect that most of the people around you will have an iPhone to use iMessage because iPhones are just too expensive to justify the purchase when you can get away with a much cheaper android device.
However, FaceTime is often used when possible.
- nottorp 3y agoAlso, ?reverse? network effect. Even if i message someone whom I know they have an iPhone I'll use WhatsApp because I want to have all my conversations in the same place. The only time i explicitly use iMessage is when I want to send a photo as unaltered as possible - wapp recompresses them for size.
- JD557 3y ago> The only time i explicitly use iMessage is when I want to send a photo as unaltered as possible - wapp recompresses them for size. Are you sure about this? I usually send images/videos via WhatsApp because, AFAICT, they are sent unchanged (unlike Facebook messenger, for example), and know multiple people who do the same thing. I never checked the file hashes, though.
- nottorp 3y agoAfaik there's a mysterious 'send as file' in WhatsApp that I haven't mastered that will indeed send the files unmodified, but if you just send from your gallery they will recompress. I generally don't care about my photos THAT much to figure out how to send them completely unmodified.