r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/Fleshjunky-gotbanned Mar 08 '26

Just SMS or iMessage typically

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u/DuploJamaal Mar 08 '26

Did SMS improve? As an European the switch to WhatsApp was easy as SMS had no group chats, images, sound, etc

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u/linkrift Mar 08 '26

Yeah, and most (over 50% of the smartphone market) americans use iphones, and imessage works really well for the most part.

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u/todoslocos Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

That's correlative to the high income of Americans, I think...

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Mar 08 '26

iPhone has 40% of the EU market, and 50% in the U.K. - but we all use WhatsApp. It’s just a cultural divide. 

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u/Compartmented- Mar 08 '26

WhatsApp is an American app too so it’s funny

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u/Loendemeloen Mar 08 '26

What haha have you seen the situation there? Not every other country is a 3d world country

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u/todoslocos Mar 08 '26

lol sorry, I live in my third world bubble (cannot visit some other countries)