| ▲ | bigbuppo 8 hours ago |
| If Meta or Google disappared overnight, it would be, at worst, a minor annoyance for most of the world. Despite the fact that both companies are advertising behemoths, marketing departments everywhere would celebrate their end. |
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| ▲ | palmotea 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > If Meta or Google disappared overnight, it would be, at worst, a minor annoyance for most of the world. I'll grant you Meta, but losing Google in that way would be highly disruptive because so many people have their primary email account on it. |
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| ▲ | NicoJuicy 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Watching this on my Android on a chrome browser. Hard disagree |
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| ▲ | lazide 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Considering how much of the world runs on WhatsApp alone, that’s laughably wrong. |
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| ▲ | hermanzegerman 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Then they would just use another Messenger or fall back on RCS/SMS. The only reason WhatsApp is so popular, is because so many people are on it, but you have all you need (their phone number) to contact them elsewhere anyway | |
| ▲ | diroussel 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | So if WhatsApp had an outage, but you needed to communicate to someone, you wouldn't be able to? Don't you have contacts saved locally, and other message apps available? | | |
| ▲ | lazide 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | In most of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and about half of Europe? You’d be pretty stuck. I guess SMS might work, but it wouldn’t for most businesses (they use the WhatsApp business functionality, there is no SMS thing backing it). Most people don’t even use text anymore. China has it’s own Apps, but everyone else uses WhatsApp exclusively at this point. | | |
| ▲ | hermanzegerman 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nobody uses WhatsApp Business in Germany, Austria or Switzerland in a way that you would be stuck without |
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