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Re:Beeper Mini is back by cubefox on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:42PM (#38607051)
US Americans love iMessage, nobody knows why.
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Re:Beeper Mini is back by sircastor on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:46PM (#38607084)
Lots of Americans have iPhones, iMessage is the default messaging on the platform, and it's actually quite a good messaging system.
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Re:Beeper Mini is back by emmet on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:59AM (#38614857)
Holdover of them being obsessed with SMS for some reason too.

I remember having to pay 20c per SMS and 50c per MMS before IMs on phones became a thing. Wasn't hard for literally everyone to want to change to the first available client which for most people was WhatsApp, 2 years before iMessage was even released. Guess messaging was so cheap in the US that they didn't have a good enough reason to hop on the IM train for years.

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