Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
by hellcow on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:36AM
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The most interesting part to me wasn't the technical details but rather the MAU, WAU, DAU stats at the end from random sample. Way fewer people than I would have expected use WhatsApp on a weekly basis.
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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
by CiTyBear on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:40AM
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This is in France, where text messages were free (unlimited with your subscription) long ago before we had internet on our smartphone.
Thus people use text message a lot and did use WhatsApp only to contact people outside from France
Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
by Jiejeing on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:39AM
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Text messages were around €0.10 for most plans until 2012 though (due to the unlawful collusion of telcos).
Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
by jorislacance on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:44AM
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Not in France actually, we mainly use WhatsApp as a main message app; nobody uses SMS nowadays
Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
by seszett on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:00AM
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Well I do use SMS, as well as my friends and family in France.
I use WhatsApp with Belgians (I live in Belgium) because SMS's are not free for them, and also for sharing photos because MMS is a mess.
Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones
by jorislacance on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:34AM
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true, my point is more about the tendency of using groups of people to quickly share. Which SMS does not do properly.