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Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets
(appleinsider.com)
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Instagram and WhatsApp... So hard to get people to stop. Particularly where smaller countries and people who travel are, where WhatsApp is the default phone.
So shitty.
If anyone wants to talk to me, they’ll have to use one of the myriad ways to keep in touch that don’t involve Meta. I refuse to continue to be their product and help them keep the idea alive that they should somehow be unavoidable. Meta relies entirely on the relational networks of people, so I removed my node from their system and made their product a little worse for anybody interested in engaging with me. Life is better without Meta dopamin/rage addiction anyway.
Sure, I won't use anything meta.
But it can be hard like I said. You want to make an appointment with a doctor, an electrician, flower delivery? They want your WhatsApp. You can't make an appointment without it. They can't fill out their billing system. They won't call you on your phone because your number is long distance.
Everyone just expects WhatsApp. Makes it hard.
As an American the thought of your doctor requiring WhatsApp to communicate with you is just a foreign concept lol
sure but first, as an american, you have to make sure the doctor in question is ‘in network’
None of our doctors, in network or otherwise force us to Zuck’s apps lol.
Imagine if every state had a different cell phone carrier or go back even further to when it was long distance even just blocks or cities over. Now imagine a technology comes in that doesn't care what carrier you are on, or if it's long distance.
That is kind of what happened to countries. Especially if you have people who work in one and live in another or have clients in another.
So even though now maybe it isn't long distance, or carriers talk to each other, everyone is used to the way they have been doing it for free.