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Useless messenger (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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And no IPad version to

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Couple reasons:

WhatsApp was its own company, took advantage of an open market in EU where SMS (and "international" phone calls?) were extra rate charges on mobile phones. Once every one got accustomed to using whatsapp Meta took it over and now we're stuck with it.