I read about WhatsApp and how people can’t part with Meta because of it, however no one on my continent uses it. Why is it so popular in the EU and other parts of the world?

  • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    That’s a really bad argument.
    Texts got free (or cheap enough not to matter) way before having data enabled on your phone 24/7 was not too expensive.

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      3 months ago

      That’s maybe like that in the US, but not in Germany. To this day we have like 50 % contracts that have unlimited calls, 10ish GB of data and a fixed price of ~9 ct per text.