Re:Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap
by lotsofpulp on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:14PM
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>It's worked in the past and most consumers (outside of HN) still don't care about the failed products.
I singlehandedly moved my entire extended family into the iOS space because I got tired of dealing with Google's bullshit messaging apps. I'm not going to waste my life teaching non computer literate people how Hangouts/Meets/Talk/Duo/Allo work.
WhatsApp came along and took the messaging space, while Skype and Hangouts and Talk or whatever couldn't figure it out. And Facetime was the only decent video calling option that didn't need to be troubleshooted.
It was ridiculous that I couldn't easily send a contact to anyone in the world until WhatsApp came around. Then I didn't have to worry about who had what phone, I sent them a contact in WhatsApp, they got it for free and it worked.
I singlehandedly moved my entire extended family into the iOS space because I got tired of dealing with Google's bullshit messaging apps. I'm not going to waste my life teaching non computer literate people how Hangouts/Meets/Talk/Duo/Allo work.
WhatsApp came along and took the messaging space, while Skype and Hangouts and Talk or whatever couldn't figure it out. And Facetime was the only decent video calling option that didn't need to be troubleshooted.
It was ridiculous that I couldn't easily send a contact to anyone in the world until WhatsApp came around. Then I didn't have to worry about who had what phone, I sent them a contact in WhatsApp, they got it for free and it worked.