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>Even Japan, with their love with iPhones, uses a homegrown service for their messaging needs. Meanwhile Europe uses another US tech giant's service. The simpl
by pb7 3y ago
>Even Japan, with their love with iPhones, uses a homegrown service for their messaging needs.
Meanwhile Europe uses another US tech giant's service. The simple answer is that most of Europe is not wealthy enough to afford iPhones and not adept enough at developing competing services without first kneecapping competition with regulation.
- nixass 3y agoSo if people had more money (which in western Europe they already do) they'd be buying more iPhones? Get out of here..
- pb7 3y agoEuropean countries that have high disposable income like the US have higher market share of iPhones. In general, iPhones owners are wealthier across the board than Android phone owners.
- Vt71fcAqt7 3y agoLINE isn't actually owned by Japanese anyway.