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Even iPhone users in Europe tend to just use WhatsApp. It's the default there, largely because of the history of carriers charging thru the nose for SMS back i
by throwaway-blaze 3y ago
Even iPhone users in Europe tend to just use WhatsApp. It's the default there, largely because of the history of carriers charging thru the nose for SMS back in the day...when WhatsApp offered "free" messaging (uses tiny amounts of your data plan), it took off.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoDoesn't iMessage predate WhatsApp for sending data based messages? I recall that being an early selling point.
- qwytw 3y ago> Even iPhone users in Europe tend to just use WhatsApp Europe is not that homogenous, WhatsApp isn't even the most popular messaging app in much of Central/Eastern Europe and Scandinavia (in addition to that iOS has a similar/higher market share in Norway/Sweden/Denmark than it does in the US). > of the history of carriers charging thru the nose for SMS back in the day. Again, this wasn't the case in every European country (where I am text messages were already free or very cheap in the early 2010s so WhatsApp didn't really take off that much and FB Messenger is still quite a bit more popular to this day because it worked on PCs/browsers and most stuck to it when smartphones were becoming popular ). same applies to Britain and Switzerland.