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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage
(finance.yahoo.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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What’s here ? I’m French and I think 90% iPhone users use it. For what I see, Whatsapp here is more, of an app dedicated to family groups and travelling abroad
EU. They took a look at the market position in EU and came to the conclusion that it could be excluded from the legislation because it held such a little position. WhatsApp and Messenger are massive compared to iMessage.
Oh alright. Too bad
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1029506/messengers-voip-penetration-france/
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/france
Considering that Android and iPhone have 65% and 34% respectively market share in France, iMessage being used 24% overall sounds about right. But you can't disregard how massive Messenger and WhatsApp are.
Indeed ! I just thought iMessage would be a bit more used