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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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