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That still means losing out on a lot of general life stuff. Just, overall.
I guess I don't see how that's made any different by the group chat being in a different app. I can turn notifications off or make them silent in either case.
Right. But everyone who has a phone has a phone number for texting.
Yep, that's definitely an advantage. I'm not trying to sell you on SMS or iMessage, I'm just trying to explain why it's popular over here.
Uh...wait. I don't see how that's different from Facebook or WhatsApp. Especially since iMessage does send messages to users on other devices, it's just a worse experience for the recipient. Meta is still a platform, it's just one you access by way of a username connected to your web activity instead of one you access by way of purchasing a specific device.
I'm glad people are so aware over there, but over here it's very uncommon for people to even be conscious of what phones their friends use. So an app that works well enough, as far as they can tell, is going to be the accepted default.
Because marketing.
No, it's caused intentionally by Apple. They spent billions of dollars cultivating that perception in America, and it's paid off for them.
Yeah, and I wish the default here was pretty much anything else too. Like I said, I'm not trying to convince you. Just explaining the situation.