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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by rswail on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:38AM (#29905030)
In Asia, it's a mixture of whatsapp, LINE (Japan/Thailand/Korea), Alichat, Wechat. Australia is a mixture of FB messenger and Whatsapp for families. Kids use different services depending on how old, snapchat, tiktok, instagram, discord (very much so for kids in the "fortnite years").

LINE and Ali/We chat are now more like platforms, for example, LINE has a wallet called LINE Pay that you can use in retail stores that grew out of selling virtual stickers for their chat client. They integrate to transit services and other things too.

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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by decafninja on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @05:03PM (#29913349)
LINE, despite being a Korean company (AFAIK) doesn't seem to have gotten traction in its home country as it has in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.

Kakao utterly dominates the market for messaging there (as it does amongst the international Korean diaspora). Even government services use it.

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