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> because Apple/iOS devices are very popular in the country Apple is popular also in Europe, and Android has a 43% market share in the US. But in Europe nobody

> because Apple/iOS devices are very popular in the country Apple is popular also in Europe, and Android has a 43% market share in the US. But in Europe nobody would use a messaging system that is broken for 40% of their contacts. So either in the US there is no intersection between the social circles of people that use Android vs Apple (highly improbable) or something in the US culture makes people willing to cripple their own experience in order to impose a tax on those in the outgroup.

immibis 2y ago
I read a comment recently on Hacker News that a pesticide or herbicide popular in the US and banned in the EU also happened to be an endocrine disruptor in humans, for a hormone responsible for empathy (oxytocin). Don't know if it's true.
ikr678 2y ago
The 'something in US culture' is conspicuous consumption and a perception that apple are superior and you shouldnt have to go out of your way to interact with poor android users.
- throw310822 2y ago
  I wonder if this is somehow related with the healthcare policies: a country where everyone is willing to pay extortionate prices for medical care, sometimes to the point of financial ruin, so that those who are "undeserving" don't get it for free.
lxgr 2y ago
SMS/MMS is free in almost all phone plans in the US, and I have absolutely no trouble believing that people would subject themselves to a very bad messaging experience if that's the default that comes with their phone, as long as it's free. If I were to come up with a social/economic theory to further back that, my guess would probably be that phone users in the US have a "full service mentality" much more than in the rest of the world: Buying a phone on a (very expensive) monthly plan that subsidizes the device is much more common than elsewhere, and historically, SIM cards weren't even a thing, so devices were tied to a given network and (to some extent) even a subscriber much more than in the rest of the world. That would logically extend to people not expecting to have to install a third-party app for what they consider to be "basic phone functionality".

immibis 2y ago

I read a comment recently on Hacker News that a pesticide or herbicide popular in the US and banned in the EU also happened to be an endocrine disruptor in humans, for a hormone responsible for empathy (oxytocin). Don't know if it's true.

ikr678 2y ago

The 'something in US culture' is conspicuous consumption and a perception that apple are superior and you shouldnt have to go out of your way to interact with poor android users.

throw310822 2y ago
I wonder if this is somehow related with the healthcare policies: a country where everyone is willing to pay extortionate prices for medical care, sometimes to the point of financial ruin, so that those who are "undeserving" don't get it for free.

lxgr 2y ago

SMS/MMS is free in almost all phone plans in the US, and I have absolutely no trouble believing that people would subject themselves to a very bad messaging experience if that's the default that comes with their phone, as long as it's free. If I were to come up with a social/economic theory to further back that, my guess would probably be that phone users in the US have a "full service mentality" much more than in the rest of the world: Buying a phone on a (very expensive) monthly plan that subsidizes the device is much more common than elsewhere, and historically, SIM cards weren't even a thing, so devices were tied to a given network and (to some extent) even a subscriber much more than in the rest of the world. That would logically extend to people not expecting to have to install a third-party app for what they consider to be "basic phone functionality".