I read about WhatsApp and how people can’t part with Meta because of it, however no one on my continent uses it. Why is it so popular in the EU and other parts of the world?

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Even before WhatsApp I used a similar app called Yak! It didn’t have any limit on how long messages you could send, you could send pictures too and the UI was much more polished compared to the messaging apps on phones. Also not everyone had unlimited text messages but everyone had a data plan that effectively enabled unlimited messages over the internet.

    I even had an iPhone back then. Never got into iMessages. Even iPhone users all have whatsapp now.