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The difference is that in most other countries people don't use SMS. They use WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat. The fragmentation isn't
by dutchCourage 3y ago
The difference is that in most other countries people don't use SMS. They use WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat.
The fragmentation isn't ideal, but it's better than the vendor locking.
- mijoharas 3y agoAhhhh, not "an issue" rather than not something that happens. Thanks for clarifying.
- sigilis 3y agoHow is a market with many participants not ideal? It seems to me the messaging "fragmentation" is just the free market actually working and people being willing and able to choose something other than the defaults and it working out. There's stuff like Beeper that allows for consolidation of multiple services, if you don't like having to use multiple apps for different people.
- cesarb 3y ago> The difference is that in most other countries people don't use SMS. The difference is that in most other countries people don't use SMS to talk to other people; receiving SMS messages from automated systems is AFAIK still very common everywhere.