I keep hoping with this anti-American Big Tech push that Europe and other places are doing they’ll get off Meta products. But I’m also not holding my breath.
Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?
JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
SMS uses cellular, WhatsApp uses internet. Internet connects you anywhere with one flat rate, cellular may charge extra per message or for international communication.
Signal is better, but everyone’s grandmother is already on WhatsApp and good luck getting them to switch
TheMadCodger@piefed.social 4 hours ago
qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
I work at a company that I strongly suspect had a very serious security breach because of Whatsapp.
During the outage, we were back to SMS and direct phone calling only. After the system was restored, back to how everything was before, caution be damned, lessons not learned.
It’s not bad enough to have that invasive application as the default means of passing information around (messages, photos, video and even audio, of all things!) on work phones, office personel has it paired to their computers, where highly sensitive programs and data is stored.
Pamasich@kbin.earth 1 hour ago
I think that's why OP asked about RCS, which is also internet but built into SMS apps.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Signal always sounded too good to be true. I won’t be shocked to learn it’s an NSA front I promise.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Back at the turn of the century text messages were exorbitantly priced