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Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion by GFischer on Thursday January 23, 2014 @01:29PM (#7110040)
LINE is big here (Uruguay, South America), it's not used in the U.S.?
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Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion by ddoolin on Thursday January 23, 2014 @01:42PM (#7110146)
Not really, nope. Very small user base here comparatively. LINE and KakaoTalk were huge in Korea when I was there last but when I came here no one had even heard of them.
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Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion by gareim on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:00PM (#7111583)
I believe that Whatsapp and Groupme are the two popular apps in the U.S. I personally use both, but prefer Whatsapp and use Groupme only because my workplace does.
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Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion by scholia on Thursday January 23, 2014 @08:05PM (#7112727)
WhatsApp is really big in some European countries, especially Spain. But apps provide a non-exclusive messaging market, so I suspect people can fairly easily switch to alternatives.
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Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion by GFischer on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:03PM (#7112943)
WhatsApp is huge here as well, but many people started using LINE after the 1 dollar scare (99% of users here literally can't pay because of the lack of international credit cards).
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