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Re:Ask HN: Android is rapidly losing the US market. What can... by dorfwald on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:38PM (#35755162)
Do people in the US really use Apple Messages? I've never encountered it here in Europe. It's basically all just WhatsApp or - if you're in more "tech-y" circles - Telegram or Signal.
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Re:Ask HN: Android is rapidly losing the US market. What can... by jamil7 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:31PM (#35755688)
Even as an iOS user/developer it’s hard for me to imagine people choosing to use messages over one of the alternatives, I don’t get this about the US. Is it really a status thing?
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Re:Ask HN: Android is rapidly losing the US market. What can... by kwanbix on Saturday April 29, 2023 @05:25PM (#35757351)
Same, I don't get why would people use Apple Messages that is only for android over Whatsapp. What is the advantage of APple Messages?
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Re:Ask HN: Android is rapidly losing the US market. What can... by 121789 on Saturday April 29, 2023 @05:41PM (#35757500)
Yes. It’s the default messaging app for iOS, which is very popular in the US. It has strong network effects now. No one I know in the US uses WA unless they are immigrants. Everyone else is iMessage, snap, or SMS for android
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Re:Ask HN: Android is rapidly losing the US market. What can... by Jtsummers on Saturday April 29, 2023 @05:45PM (#35757548)
SMS/MMS is still (sadly) quite common in the US and on iPhones that means using the built-in Messages app. So if you want a non-SMS/MMS that's also widely used in the US you get it "for free" by using iMessages from the same application if you're an iPhone user. And this chat also works with your non-iPhone contacts because it switches to SMS/MMS for them.

For whatever reason WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and others never won out on Android in the US so the Android users didn't bring along their iPhone using network to those clients either (in bulk).

Google of course has lost out because of their own foolishness: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...

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