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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by eddieroger on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:48PM (#24385913)
Because it's just there on devices they have. It is the default for tweens and teens who just got an iPhone handed down from a parent, and it works on day one. Regionality happened with IM clients back in the day as well - some areas favored AIM, some Yahoo, some MSN. Why did that happen? It just does.
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Re:AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac by hu3 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:57PM (#24385993)
That's called network effect.
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