The rest of the world isn't on WhatsApp. What a bizarre claim. Vietnam uses Zalo. Japan uses Line. Korea uses Kakaotalk. China uses WeChat. Iran is Telegram.

And in the US more people are using iMessage than SMS thanks to iPhone's 58% market share.

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lawgimenez 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The other countries not mentioned are on Facebook's Messenger.

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piva00 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think Germany has a high amount of users on Signal, it's quite interesting seeing the stats about messaging apps in different countries, it's very fractured internationally while being very consistent inside borders.

I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger, it's the clunkiest of them all, and since I don't like using it all I constantly miss important messages from friends from not having the app installed and checking Facebook once in a blue moon :/

	▲	reddalo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>it's very fractured internationally while being very consistent inside borders I think it's caused by the network effect [1]. >I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger I agree. Denmark is the same, everybody uses FB Messenger or, even worse, Snapchat. And don't even get me started on payment systems: Sweden has Swish, Denmark has MobilePay, Italy has Satispay, etc. It's completely fractured and it's so annyoing when travelling across the EU. At least there's a new European system called Wero [2], I wonder if it's going to help fixing this situation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect [2] https://wero-wallet.eu/