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Re:Beeper – Moving Forward by Grustaf on Sunday December 24, 2023 @06:54AM (#38752908)
Whatsapp is universally available as far as I know. If people choose not to use a universally available, free and secure alternative, it would seem that universality is not the main driving factor.
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Re:Beeper – Moving Forward by int_19h on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:42AM (#38761194)
Network effects are a thing. Mere availability of WhatsApp (or Signal, or whatever) doesn't do you any good if all the people you actually need to talk to don't have it installed.
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Re:Beeper – Moving Forward by Grustaf on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:10AM (#38762715)
Yes but you can’t fault Apple for people freely choosing to use one app over another, especially when they do nothing at all to discourage whatsapp and the other third party alternatives.
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Re:Beeper – Moving Forward by int_19h on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @09:10PM (#38849837)
You can, however, force them to be interoperable.
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