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im curious, what do americans use instead?
by kayoone 13y ago
im curious, what do americans use instead?
- dba7dba 13y agosame old texting.
- kayoone 13y agointeresting, i suppose its free? because it isn't here in germany which is why whatsapp is massively popular.
- jcdavis 13y agoYep. Most of the new plans the carriers in the US have rolled out recently have unlimited minutes + texting as standard, and then charge extra based on data limits. Not exactly cheap mind you, but that's how its structured. Even my cheapo $30/mo T-mobile prepaid includes unlimited texting.
- dba7dba 13y ago@kayoone No it's NOT free. US is just slow picking up new tech. It wasn't too long ago when Verizon was charging $10/month for 100 or 500 texts a month, with MASSIVE over the limit usage fee. The smart/young ones alternative but generally most don't care. And while most complain about paying $ for service that may not get used, they continue to pay, because they have the $.
- gms 13y agoEither regular text messaging or Apple's iMessage (iPhones are most popular in the US). My sense is that they don't really do group chats (a heavily used feature of WhatsApp).
- RandallBrown 13y agoWe (my friends and I) use group messaging heavily and none of us use WhatsApp. MMS supports group messaging just fine and lots of my friends have iPhones so iMessage works just fine there. We do pay more than $1 per year for unlimited text messages but I don't know anyone that doesn't get unlimited text messaging these days.
- Crito 13y agoAs far as I understand the purpose of WhatsApp, Americans use SMS instead. The ones I talk with anyway. Everyone either has unlimited texting (the price of which isn't considered since they get it with a cell plan that they want for other reasons (probably data)), or keep it under the monthly free limit.