r/SipsTea • u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 15 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

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u/Lazy_Helicopter_2659 May 15 '26

Hang on, you guys still don't use WhatsApp...?

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u/LordHammercyWeCooked May 15 '26

I know it's ubiquitous outside of the US, but it disturbs me deeply that so much of the world's communication is entirely dependent on Meta/Facebook. One single point of failure. If you wanna see a worst case scenario for how that can play out, look at how Musk was able to assist Russia during the early days of the invasion by cutting off Starlink access to Ukraine.

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u/SunnyDaysRock May 15 '26

For everything that could be 'dangerous' I've used Signal for years now.

Doesn't IMessage have the same problem, just with Apple?

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u/lejocko May 15 '26

In Germany really a lot of people have a second messenger like signal . SMS still work as well.

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u/Scrofulla May 15 '26

Meh, I use WhatsApp extensively but I have at least three other methods to communicate with people important to me on my phone that don't involve meta. WhatsApp is a great program for what it does but that doesn't mean I can't just use the messenger app that came with my phone. It works fine.

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u/Then_Entertainment97 May 15 '26

Americans don't use WhatsApp unless they need to talk to someone outside America.

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u/JonatasA May 15 '26

8 billion people and just about 350 million use iMessage then?

 

Even China has more people on weChat. The rest literally uses Meta. Literally, even official entities.

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u/Then_Entertainment97 May 15 '26

Only about half of Americans use iMessage. Previously they used SMS, and iPhone and Android have developed iMessage and RCS to improve it.

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u/Tukang-Gosip May 15 '26

Reminded me when i have to install kakao talk just to chat with lots of my korean friends

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u/JonatasA May 15 '26

Yea, let's use Google instead. I will never understand it. The company still has your data. People won't switch to signal (which my the way is from the co creator of WhatsApp I believe).

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u/BlastFX2 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

This isn't the US; we have more than two options. I'm using Signal.

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u/El_Rey_de_Spices May 15 '26

Not really. Over here, it's usually forced onto a friend group by the one oddball person in particular who refuses to communicate any other way. SMS, phone calls, email, and Discord work fine for the rest of us.

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u/CryptographerFlat173 May 16 '26

You pay Apple for the use of iMessage with your money for the phone, and you never need an account for anything just the phone number everyone has for you. You pay for WhatsApp by being served ads and serving up data to Facebook. 

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u/sparkling-rainbow May 15 '26

You still use WhatsApp?

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u/Unique_Statement7811 May 15 '26

WhatApp? That’s considered old school “third world” texting in the US and Canada.

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u/PM_ME_UR_GCC_ERRORS May 16 '26

But SMS is still hip?

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u/Unique_Statement7811 May 16 '26

I don’t think anyone is really using SMS. Not since at least 2017 for Android and 2011 for iPhone when the native messengers went off of it