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by hellcow 1887 days ago
The most interesting part to me wasn't the technical details but rather the MAU, WAU, DAU stats at the end from random sample. Way fewer people than I would have expected use WhatsApp on a weekly basis.
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CiTyBear 1887 days ago
This is in France, where text messages were free (unlimited with your subscription) long ago before we had internet on our smartphone. Thus people use text message a lot and did use WhatsApp only to contact people outside from France
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Jiejeing 1887 days ago
Text messages were around €0.10 for most plans until 2012 though (due to the unlawful collusion of telcos).
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jorislacance 1887 days ago
Not in France actually, we mainly use WhatsApp as a main message app; nobody uses SMS nowadays
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seszett 1887 days ago
Well I do use SMS, as well as my friends and family in France.

I use WhatsApp with Belgians (I live in Belgium) because SMS's are not free for them, and also for sharing photos because MMS is a mess.

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jorislacance 1887 days ago
true, my point is more about the tendency of using groups of people to quickly share. Which SMS does not do properly.
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