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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by kaladin-jasnah on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:31PM (#30081333)
> Texting on iPhone just works.

Downloading Telegram, Signal, Discord, WhatsApp, or the number of third-party messaging applications that is widely used by a number of people, within and outside the blue bubble of the US "just works" as well. And unlike iMessage, these platforms let you chat with other people. What's so wrong with that? Is it too much friction to click to install a (superior with objectively tons more features than iMessage that work on all its platforms) third-party messaging client? Telegram even has games, which are quite popular amongst the teenagers, just like iMessage.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by Karunamon on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:16AM (#30082036)
>Is it too much friction to click to install a third-party messaging client?

Yes. This is why defaults matter. In this case, it generated a network effect.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by kaladin-jasnah on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:24AM (#30084212)
Clearly not in Europe or India or China. First world problems, I guess.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by Karunamon on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:08PM (#30089251)
Countries where iPhones are less dominant and the Android SMS app is the default - so we see people using Whatsapp or equivalent.
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