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Re:iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see... by MagnumOpus on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:37AM (#23414166)
> brilliant if your family and friends are all on iPhones, which I'm pretty sure is fairly common in most Western countries

iOS market share is 60% in the US which is the highest worldwide, and only above 50% in a handful of other countries (UK, Japan, Oz, Canada)[0]. If you have any friends who are not rich, or are European or South American, there's a good chance they won't iMessage you but try to add you on WhatsApp.

[0]https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share

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Re:iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see... by arkades on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:29AM (#23416278)
>If you have any friends who are not rich, or are European or South American

One: 55-60% market share in the US, by definition, is not confined to "the rich."

As to the other categories: my personal answer to "If you have any friends that aren't American" is "that's what whatsapp is for." I imagine for a lot of people the answer is that, or "I don't, actually."

Like, all the teenagers in my family. Their list of non-US friends is near-zero. Their non-US family are all on whatsapp.

They don't experience a gap.

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