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So you're saying that if I install WhatsApp on my phone, I can text anyone I want, if I have their phone number? Doesn't matter if they have WhatsApp installed
by rootusrootus 3y ago
So you're saying that if I install WhatsApp on my phone, I can text anyone I want, if I have their phone number? Doesn't matter if they have WhatsApp installed? I just say "send this to 5551212" and it gets there?
- standardUser 3y agoThey need to install the app, which is free. What they don't need to do is buy an iPhone, which is not free.
- danaris 3y agoSo they absolutely segregate users onto their proprietary platform, it just happens not to cost money to use.
- rootusrootus 3y agoAndroid phones are free? I have to buy the phone no matter what, so I don't see that as a differentiator. I don't want multiple ecosystems that don't interoperate at all. I don't want to give my private conversations over to an ad company like Facebook. I like iMessage because it adds features without taking. I don't worry about what app I need to use depending on who I want to talk to, I just send them a message and move on with my life.
- gkbrk 3y agoYou can run Android apps on almost any non-Apple brand of phones, Windows PCs, Linux, Mac OS and Chromebooks. You can run iMessage on Apple devices, nowhere else. Surely you see the difference.
- rootusrootus 3y ago> Surely you see the difference. I know what argument you're trying to make, but I think it is disingenuous to pretend that WhatsApp is free while iMessage is not. As a practical matter neither is free, and both are free.
- standardUser 3y agoiMessage is not free insofar as one much purchase an iPhone to use it.