Its funny that thats the current situation of international phone costs. Sms and calling internationally is expensive while I can download a global(/local to the country) esim giving me data for cheap.
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Because when Whatsapp was born, SMS were paid (and not cheaply). In my country, sending one SMS cost 0.19€ at the time and didn’t allow pics to be send. Meanwhile, with 10€ I could have 1-2GB of data that allowed for tens of thousands of messages to be sent while on mobile data and unlimited messages while I was on a wifi connection.
Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
And not only. I can make a voice or video call to my family abroad with any IM app (whatsapp, telegram, signal, discord… pick your poison) for free because I have tons of gb of data in my cell plan. Meanwhile, making a phone call will cost me dearly.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
WhatsApp was also an independent company and worked really well compared with other apps. I remember checking alternatives like… 5 years ago and no other app was able to do video calls reliably. Since then Signal caught up and works great now but everyone is already on WhatsApp. EU was working interoperability requirements. That’s pretty much the only way to escape WhatsApp now.
Nighed@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Signal still doesn’t do live location sharing I don’t think?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
Signal requires Google Play Services to share location so it doesn’t work for me on Graphene OS at all.
SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Molly does location sharing just fine without Play Services.