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Re:It’s Toasted by swiftcoder on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:33AM (#47972776)
> Maybe whatsapp has some use

WhatsApp is a real hard breakup in much of the world. It's the defacto standard for communication around here, and even a bunch of businesses use it exclusively. One can hope the EU will eventually mandate unlimited SMS on cellphone plans, but I don't see WhatsApp being dethroned another way

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Re:It’s Toasted by vladvasiliu on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:59AM (#47972936)
> One can hope the EU will eventually mandate unlimited SMS on cellphone plans, but I don't see WhatsApp being dethroned another way

I doubt it.

Here in France, cell plans have had unlimited SMS for a very long time now. Yet, WhatsApp still is extremely widespread. Now, I'm not the most socially connected guy around, so I may not be attuned to any new developing trends in the matter, but IME it doesn't seem to lose any popularity, and something like 95% of the people I interact with on WhatsApp are locals.

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Re:It’s Toasted by unmole on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:49AM (#47972872)
The UX and feature set of WhatsApp is much better than SMS. India has practically free SMS but WhatsApp remains pervasive.
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Re:It’s Toasted by finghin on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:56AM (#47972918)
WhatsApp is the “best” Meta app by far. It does just offer an easy, secure way of contacting people using their phone number, through text, voice, images, video.

None of their other apps come close. It doesn’t even look like a Meta product to me.

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Re:It’s Toasted by jeraldbenny on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:00AM (#47972942)
Meta acquired WhatsApp, thats why its the best
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Re:It’s Toasted by swiftcoder on Friday May 01, 2026 @09:09AM (#47974386)
They acquired instagram too, and somehow they transformed that into the same sort of shithole as modern Facebook...
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Re:It’s Toasted by finghin on Saturday May 02, 2026 @05:15AM (#47984779)
As the other user pointed out, it definitely stands out among other product acquisitions.
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Re:It’s Toasted by Timwi on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:50PM (#48002428)
What makes WhatsApp superior to Telegram and/or Signal?
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Re:It’s Toasted by wrxd on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:46AM (#47974166)
Unlimited SMS isn't the solution. In fact most of the countries where Whatsapp is dominant already have unlimited SMS (probably because pretty much nobody is using it anymore).

What I'd like to see is interoperability so that I am not forced to use Whatsapp because everyone else is using it and my friends in the US aren't forced to buy an iPhone just to use iMessage

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