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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by kyriakos on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:45PM (#33501269)
Not sure how universal its in all of Europe but at least where I live, nobody uses SMS for communication. To the point that government services are unofficially using viber and WhatsApp to communicate with citizens.

In recent years I only used SMS for 2FA.

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Re:Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013) by realusername on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:57PM (#33501356)
That's exactly the reason why iMessage isn't used much in Europe, it's seen as an SMS client and SMS aren't used anymore.

Half of the problem is a branding issue (calling it "messages" on the phone did not help) and the other half of the issue is that it's not available on Android

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