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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by vidanay on Sunday May 29, 2016 @10:51AM (#11796539)
Sample size of one for me....

I was in Germany two weeks ago and I tried to get my colleagues on chat...any chat...when I mentioned WhatsApp, they all looked at me like I had a unicorn horn growing out of my forehead. So far I have been unsuccessful in getting any of my team on a chat platform on a regular basis. My company supposedly endorses Lync 2010 (yeah, I know), but probably less than 10% of my coworkers use it and the entire division in Germany doesn't even have it installed on their PC's. Our Lync is also broken by the fact that corporate IT doesn't allow it on mobile platforms.

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Re:Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know by tdkl on Sunday May 29, 2016 @12:19PM (#11796881)
That's funny, because all people I know that use Whatsapp have moved to Germany.

But this mostly shows that the popularity debate is moot - you tend to know/use what your circle of friends does disregarding of statistics of this article posted.

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