At least normal European people are locked into a platform that doesn’t care what device you’re using, unlike iMessage - so it’s not all bad
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PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI use Beeper which shows me a unified view of whatsapp and Signal and others. whatsapp itself has zero permissions on my phone. I hate that I need to have it at all but Europe is deep into that. Sigh.
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m an iPhone user and I’ve never met anyone that gave a shit about iMessage. In the past ten years.
Alk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m an android user and I semi-frequently meet iPhone users who show anything between surprise and downright disdain towards me because I don’t have the right color of bubble.
Kuma@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The only iPhone users I ever met who cared were back when texting cost a lot, unless you had a special plan (there was one that made it free if the person you texted had the same plan). Then smart phones came and we all switched to Kik, then WhatsApp, then Messenger (some got both or an alternative). And now we have got free texting and calling across the whole EU, yet none of my friends uses it haha
sykaster@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Isn’t Beeper another security risk? They also store your data on their cloud, and it’s not encrypted during the bridge process.
kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Whatsapp is popular a lot in many parts of the world. In India, WhatsApp is almost the defacto standard messaging app with Telegram probably flying in a far second. I doubt I know anyone who even uses stuff like Signal or Threema or any of the alternatives.
embed_me@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t help that Telegram media downloads are throttled by some Indian ISPs (looking at you, Jio)
AugustWest@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
But then aren’t you trusting your credentials to yet another application? That seems like a bad idea…
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fair point. The simplest answer is thrt any other business cannot possibly be as evil as meta, so even worst case is a net win.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
There was a big uproar amongst normies when the WhatsApp TOS changed…but people forget quickly and prefer convenience. That was our one chance to convert everyone over.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I stopped using it for 3 years, then I had to interact with a surgeon through it and reconnected with a fee people who still use it. I fucking hate using it