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If Meta or Google disappared overnight, it would be, at worst, a minor annoyance for most of the world. Despite the fact that both companies are advertising beh
by bigbuppo 11mo ago
If Meta or Google disappared overnight, it would be, at worst, a minor annoyance for most of the world. Despite the fact that both companies are advertising behemoths, marketing departments everywhere would celebrate their end.
- lazide 11mo agoConsidering how much of the world runs on WhatsApp alone, that’s laughably wrong.
- diroussel 11mo agoSo if WhatsApp had an outage, but you needed to communicate to someone, you wouldn't be able to? Don't you have contacts saved locally, and other message apps available?
- lazide 11mo agoIn most of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and about half of Europe? You’d be pretty stuck. I guess SMS might work, but it wouldn’t for most businesses (they use the WhatsApp business functionality, there is no SMS thing backing it). Most people don’t even use text anymore. China has it’s own Apps, but everyone else uses WhatsApp exclusively at this point.
- hermanzegerman 11mo agoNobody uses WhatsApp Business in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in a way that you would be stuck without
- balder1991 11mo agoBrazil had many times a judge punished WhatsApp by blocking it in Brazil, and all the times that happened, Telegram gained hundreds of thousands of new users.
- bigbuppo 11mo agoReally? Please indicate your source for that claim that "most people don't even use text anymore" because I have never once in my life been asked about WhatsApp, but have implemented a few dozen SMS integrations after all the annoying rules changes where you have to ask "mother may I" and submit a stool sample to send an SMS message from something other than a phone.
- lazide 11mo agoWhich country are you in?
- hermanzegerman 11mo agoThen they would just use another Messenger or fall back on RCS/SMS. The only reason WhatsApp is so popular, is because so many people are on it, but you have all you need (their phone number) to contact them elsewhere anyway
- lelanthran 11mo ago> Considering how much of the world runs on WhatsApp alone, that’s laughably wrong. People would just switch to the next IM platform. Most would forget they ever needed whatsapp 12 hours after a permanent whatsapp shutdown. I mean, the only reason the majority of whatsapp users use whatsapp is the network effect. Take that away and you think people would just give up trying to IM each other?
- NicoJuicy 11mo agoWatching this on my Android on a chrome browser. Hard disagree
- palmotea 11mo ago> If Meta or Google disappared overnight, it would be, at worst, a minor annoyance for most of the world. I'll grant you Meta, but losing Google in that way would be highly disruptive because so many people have their primary email account on it.