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by nsbq71 2981 days ago
Not really trolling, think about it. Here in Europe we all have whatsapp that works right. Why would we switch to RCS, which is an inferior replacement (no E2E for example), and that does not even support all major platforms?

Back when RCS (under the name of Joyn) was about to be released everybody dreamt of switching to it, thinking that maybe, just maybe, telcos would make RCS free, so you wouldn't have to buy data to chat, like you have to do with whatsapp (back then many people didn't have data). That never happened evidently, and now most people have data because it's gotten much cheaper. So there's no way we will leave whatsapp, and yes RCS is dead.
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vegardx 2981 days ago
I don't know a single person that uses WhatsApp, and I live in Europe. We have a tendency to think that everyone adopts the same things, especially when it comes to technology. This has been demonstrated to not be true multiple times.

It'd be cool if we had a standard that everyone could use, like SMS, just that supported larger messages. Oh wait...

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Double_a_92 2981 days ago
What do your people use? Facebook chat, Telegram...?
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vegardx 2981 days ago
Kind of besides the point, but Facebook Messenger, Snapchat and iMessage has very good penetration, people usually have two of the three. And everyone just fall back on SMS when if they need to.
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Double_a_92 2980 days ago
Do they really use Snapchat for writing? I've tried to use it besides picture sharing and it's really cumbersome... It's really slow to startup (compared to other apps), the UI is confusing, and old messages get deleted...
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vegardx 2980 days ago
I have no clue, as I don't use it. I imagine most people use it for sharing pictures and use other apps for chatting.
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tpush 2980 days ago
In which country do you live? UK?
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