Considering how much of the world runs on WhatsApp alone, that’s laughably wrong.

hermanzegerman 5 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

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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?

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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