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Why not just use whatsapp?

• ethanbond 3y ago
  No reason not to except it's just not very big in the US.
• stackskipton 3y ago
  Because in US, it's just not a common application everyone has so you get a ton of "I don't have whatsapp, just text me!" from friends.
  • standardUser 3y ago
    I've gotten almost everyone I know to use WhatsApp. Not switch necessarily, but use. There's only a few stragglers left. It's not a hard sell, at least in a big city where you're bound to know a lot of foreigners or people with foreign friends/family, so adoption starts well above zero.
• Analemma_ 3y ago
  The other replies already brought up that WhatsApp is not common in the US, but I'll also add that if your beef with iMessage is the evil corporate overlord, moving to WhatsApp kinda seems like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
• rootusrootus 3y ago
  Good grief, if I were ranking corporations by trust, I'm definitely not switching from Apple to Facebook of all things.