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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago

I'll never wrap my head around why America cares so much about iMessage.

The literal rest of the world has managed to settle on chat apps that aren't locked into a single vendor.

[-] stephengentle@ioc.exchange 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

@9point6 @ardi60 Cross-platform, sure, but most are still controlled by single vendors, like the two billion people using WhatsApp (Meta), the 1.3 billion using WeChat, the 930 million using Messenger (Meta again), etc…

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