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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by Salgat on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:57PM (#39787031)
Do you have an example of a place that has a similar rate of usage for iPhones but primarily uses WhatsApp for texting? In the US the rate is 87% for teenagers, I'm surprised it's that high elsewhere.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by gms on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:32AM (#39787714)
I don’t as I don’t know the numbers, but note also the US is a rich country.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by nroets on Friday March 22, 2024 @02:52AM (#39788013)
Bear in mind that WhatsApp adoption is often driven by the costs involved with SMS especially when sending to an international number.

WhatsApp also enable free international voip calls.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by gms on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:44AM (#39790139)
iMessage and FaceTime Audio are also free.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by sirn on Friday March 22, 2024 @02:59AM (#39788039)
iPhone has 51% market share in Japan across all age group[1] (and even as high as 84.8% in some demographic[2]). From my 5 years of living here, I’ve never seen anyone use iMessage even once. The dominant messaging app is LINE.

[1]: https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prAP51933524

[2]: https://japantoday.com/category/tech/study-shows-iphone-the-...

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by Salgat on Saturday March 23, 2024 @04:20PM (#39802822)
Seems like LINE became the predominant app way back in 2012 (it released even before iMessage did in 2011), so my guess is that it took hold before iMessage ever had a chance, unlike in the US where texting was always the main way to communicate on phones up until iMessage integrated texting to absorb all those users.
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