The U.S. lagged adoption of SMS compared to Europe (relatively high prices for texting in the early days while relatively low prices for calling in the same era) but now SMS/RCS/iMessage are the dominant mobile messaging method in the U.S. There’s much lower adoption of third-party services like WhatsApp compared to the rest of the world because basically everyone has those services already on their phone, they don’t have to sign up for a service that not everyone might use, and it’s basically free on every phone in the U.S. now.
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krippix@feddit.org 11 months agoIs that a US thing? I don‘t know anyone who still uses SMS. Or do you mean something else?
jqubed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
SMS and especially MMS sucks ass though.
jqubed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yup, I spent years begging my family to stop sending family photos from gatherings through text messages, to no avail. I eventually switched to iPhone and see that it’s fine if we’re all on iMessage, but many of my aunts/uncles/cousins are on Android so if they’re in the picture then it gets sent as MMS and we get terrible images again.
Skydancer@pawb.social 11 months ago
Nailed it. Yes, it’s a US thing.