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by selfhoster11 1147 days ago
IMO, screw that. WhatsApp and a myriad of other messengers are perfectly free and cross-platform. Europe (or at least certain countries within Europe) seem to have largely escaped the stupid bubble colour classism of the American market. Possibly due to bad MMS support, so people just moved on to Internet messengers as soon as those got off the ground.

Edit: more moderate phrasing
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oldandboring 1146 days ago
Screw that indeed, but in reality, here in the US/Canada, if you are dealing with a group of people who are 100% iPhone/iMessage, you have a pretty low chance of getting them all to switch to WhatsApp to accommodate you, the one lonely Android user who must be poor or stubborn or something.

Caveat: I successfully did it with one group of friends. Have completely failed in all other attempts.

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