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by jjrh 2664 days ago
No one wants to install ANOTHER app just to talk to you. Most of us already have at least 3 messaging apps they use on a daily basis and probably a whole lot more they use on a weekly basis.
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sm4rk0 2664 days ago
But why WhatsApp is one of those 3 and Signal is ANOTHER app? Not so long ago WhatsApp was ANOTHER. Now it's not. What changed?
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schwap 2664 days ago
I don't remember WhatsApp ever being ANOTHER. It was the first cross-platform messaging app I ever used.
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sm4rk0 2663 days ago
Wikipedia says it was released in January 2009. Google Talk started in August 2005. For a GTalk user, it was "another".
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webninja 2664 days ago
GroupMe works fine
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