The achievement, announced in an official blog post, indicates a potential shift in the American messaging landscape, where WhatsApp has steadily gained ground despite the longstanding popularity of Apple’s iMessage. The Meta-owned messaging app is extremely popular in Europe owing to its cross-platform compatibility.

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    3 months ago

    I did pay $1 shortly before they were bought by Facebook. But then everyone already had WhatsApp and didn’t want to change. I use Signal as often as possible but non tech savvy people are impossible to persuade to switch.

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      3 months ago

      I simply uninstalled WA. I have signal, threema and as a sort of compromise towards the average users I also have a Foss telegram client. If the wa users dont also have either of these, tough shit. Send me a text then I guess

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        3 months ago

        I’d love to but the consequence would just be that I’m missing even more from family, club etc.

        WA completely replaced SMS here from the very beginning. There were phone providers with subs where WA traffic was free when flatrates weren’t common.