Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android
by xwolfi on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:08AM
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In Hong Kong everyone has an iphone but everyone uses Whatsapp. I'm so surprised iMessage is even used at all, we all consider it a gimmick here, like, Whatsapp and Telegram are so great at their respective subset of features and WeChat does the rest.
Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android
by windowshopping on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:32AM
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I am in the US and have been here my whole life. My entire extended social circle uses whatsapp. I realize that is the minority but it does exist.
This product is not for you. I don't know where you're commenting from, but I'm guessing it's not from the US. Using WhatsApp or Discord or Instagram or TikTok messages only have value because the people you want to talk to use them. In the US, iMessage is by far the dominant messaging service for iPhone users, and iPhones dominate certain socioeconomic groups. This situation sucks, but there are lots of Android users who get extremely frustrated when a large group of their friends are on iPhones, to the point it can be socially isolating when you're "the odd man out" in a group chat (and it's not the whole green/blue bubbles the media likes to talk about, it's that interoperability between iMessage and other clients sucks and breaks many features).
This is a great option for US Android users who want to be able to better communicate with their friends that have iPhones.