[theodric]

In Europe - NL/CH/IE, specifically - everybody I know uses WhatsApp and Signal (except the Swiss who sometimes insist on Threema), even between iPhones-- iMessage never even comes up. I don't think anybody's sent me an SMS in literally years, bar one North American-based guy I used to work with.

(I'm sure someone out there knows a clique of European iMessage partisans, but that someone is not me!)

[wkat4242]

Yeah same here in Spain and I have a lot of Dutch friends. Nobody has sent me an SMS in years and I don't have iMessage. Some of my friends have iPhones but they just use WhatsApp or telegram like everyone else (for Dutch friends WhatsApp is the main thing, here in Spain it's more telegram but also because its group chats are infinitely better and I'm involved in a lot of groups)

[SushiHippie]

I've only seen iMessage get used in familes where everyone has an apple device for family chats and stuff.