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• Pechente@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Germany too and I remember how upsetting it was to me from the beginning. There were third party messengers that supported established (at the time) services like ICQ or live messenger but people got onto the hot new thing because it’s so much like SMS.

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  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember starting to use it because texting was pretty expensive and limited at the time. Whatsapp was free (group) texting when on WiFi and still cheaper when on cellular. If texting wasn’t so expensive at the time I really don’t think whatsapp would’ve caught on like it did. Now people are just used to it so that’s probably why it’s still big

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    • plutopos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I lived the switch in second person. My sister kept running out of SMSs to text her boyfriend, and our elder sister told her about Whatsapp and how she could have basically infinite text messages

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      • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly. And, combined with the shared amount of texts/minutes (which IIRC for me was something like 100), actually calling people and wanting to text your friends you’d run out of texts very quick. WhatsApp was a godsend at the time.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think the whole europe except some countries

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    never heard anyone use whatsapp in sweden, everyone is expected to use something that supports sms as a fallback. Usually facebook messenger or whatever the iphone thing is called.

    Far as i know the only popular truly separate platform would be something like snapchat or kik or whatever, which is used by teenagers.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      except some countries

      Checks out

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