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651 points openchampagne | 5 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.665s | source
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happyopossum ◴[04 Feb 25 21:12 UTC] No.42938792[source]▶
My wife is in a position (board chair for a co-op) that results in her sending out a lot of invites to events. Evite has kinda been the go-to in her social/co-op group for ages, but man it suuuuuuucks these days. Ads everywhere, annoying patterns, and lacks a bunch of nice features that this seems to have.

Very happy to see this

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echelon ◴[04 Feb 25 22:03 UTC] No.42939573[source]▶
Luma and Partiful are really good.

This Apple thing is going to turn into a "green text" social signalling thing all over again. If you have an Android, you won't be invited.

More scummy Apple social engineering bullshit. Kids that already hate on those having Android colored text bubbles are going to bully each other even more. And of course kids need the latest iPhone, too.

Apple is playing into this brilliantly and it's disgusting.

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astrange ◴[04 Feb 25 22:15 UTC] No.42939739[source]▶
This green text thing only happens in the US. Nobody really uses iMessage elsewhere.
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1. simonask ◴[05 Feb 25 09:43 UTC] No.42946216[source]▶
Apple/iOS has market dominance in several places outside the US, including Japan, Canada, Scandinavia, and several other European nations. It has a slight majority in the UK.

Android has worldwide dominance overall, but people tend to communicate locally.

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...

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2. laken ◴[05 Feb 25 14:18 UTC] No.42948780[source]▶
Japan and most of Europe do not really use iMessage (Japan uses LINE, Europe generally uses WhatsApp), so I'm not sure exactly how iPhone market dominance is relevant to the previous commenter's point.
3. piltdownman ◴[05 Feb 25 14:35 UTC] No.42948991[source]▶
Nobody uses iMessage in Europe. It's an american phenomenon like beepers, caused by different market conditions.

In Europe the kids use Snapchat. Adults use WhatsApp for most calls, messages and rich media, and maybe Signal/Telegram for select groups or grey activities. The elderly use Facebook messenger and WhatsApp.

4. rchaud ◴[05 Feb 25 15:31 UTC] No.42949898[source]▶
iMessage is nowhere near as popular outside the US, mostly because consumers do not expect to default themselves into some kind of single-manufacturer proprietary "ecosystem" that rivals Sony in how anti-consumer it is.

Thanks to the EU, you can just charge newer model iPhones with any USB-C cable now instead of having to pad Apple's profits further with proprietary dongles and cables that offer no additional value.

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5. dhosek ◴[05 Feb 25 16:13 UTC] No.42950611[source]▶
Your depiction of iMessage (which is essentially SMS+encrypted communication with enhancements to people who also have Apple devices) seems disingenuous, as does your explanation of why people use alternatives outside the US. Outside the HN bubble, most people don‘t care about things like proprietary vs open (and if they did, why the heck would they opt for propietary alternatives).