And in the US more people are using iMessage than SMS thanks to iPhone's 58% market share.
I don't know about you, but I personally talk with Iranians more on Whatsapp than telegram. I know the Iranian government did ban whatsapp for a while, but its still popular. I remember reading an article on here about a whatsapp leak, and it mentioned that there are over 60 million whatsapp users in Iran. Considering that Iran has a population of around 91 million, that's a huge majority of the country.
I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger, it's the clunkiest of them all, and since I don't like using it all I constantly miss important messages from friends from not having the app installed and checking Facebook once in a blue moon :/
I wouldn't otherwise mention it, but this is one of the few sites where "Stand up your own messaging server" isn't a completely insane suggestion.
I think it's caused by the network effect [1].
>I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger
I agree. Denmark is the same, everybody uses FB Messenger or, even worse, Snapchat.
And don't even get me started on payment systems: Sweden has Swish, Denmark has MobilePay, Italy has Satispay, etc. It's completely fractured and it's so annyoing when travelling across the EU.
At least there's a new European system called Wero [2], I wonder if it's going to help fixing this situation.
Absolutely _not_ the case here (France), the overwhelming default is SMS (and now RCS). Sure people use WhatsApp but also Telegram just as much these days, but in both cases it's _not the default_.
Maybe because it's been, I don't know, one to two decades that SMS have been unlimited in even the most basic plans.
Also RCS Just Works here, I've seen my non-Apple contacts move to RCS over time as they got OS or phone upgrades.
I'd blame NA carriers, which, from afar, seem to have a habit of screwing up in so many ways.
Slow cable Internet and 120v residential electricity are two more examples. I fortunately have fiber now, but I'll be stuck dreaming of 240v outlets and appliances for the rest of my life.
EU also mandates dedicated circuits for big appliances, so there is no difference in practice.
The two things I can think of are electric kettle and a raclette machine.
Tools are mostly battery powered those days. A home workshop would most likely be wired in 240 or three phases anyways.
What else are you missing?
An electric tea kettle that didn't take an hour to warm up would be very nice.
My well pump runs on 120v, and when the motor kicks in the whole house knows.
240v has lower voltage drop over distances, puts off less heat due to lower amperage for the same wattage, and since we're dreaming, we could switch over to a sane plug design like Type F or G instead of A and B.
I've been using electric kettles in north america and whilst they take longer, we're talking 5 minutes not an hour.
Some hyperbole can be appropriate but you're just being disingenuous here, or you've never actually used a kettle.
My desktop PC uses about 600W running at full tilt. It can take 120V or 240V. At 120V, it will pull 5A to run its 600W load. At 240V, it'll only use 2.5A. This means for the same gauge of wire, it'll experience less resistive losses and thus be cooler and less prone to overheating.
You wouldn't change the outlet to a higher amperage outlet, you'd just change to the 240V equivalent of that same amperage rating. For the US, it looks pretty much the same as a regular wall outlet but has the blades horizontal instead of vertical. Something like this:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-15-Amp-250-V-NEMA-6-15R-...
Well yes, but usually the whole point of switching to 240V is to get more power than what 120V can supply. The people complaining about electric kettles being “slow” in the US compared to the EU would still be complaining if those kettles always pulled the same number of Watts on both 120V and 240V, because it's the Watts that determine how fast the water heats up. The amperage is therefore probably going to be at minimum approximately the same in that case — and probably higher if you're doing something more intensive (and therefore requiring more current) with that new 240V outlet than just running an electric kettle (like running a stove or a clothes dryer or an air conditioner or an electric car charger or a rack of 10+ of those 600W-PSU-laden computers — hence those usually getting beefier 20A+ circuits while everything else in a house might be 15A).
Very poor quality for images and videos, emoji reactions, editable messages, deletable messages, group administration.
SMS also has crazy weird limitations with messaging across countries due to ISP pricing, even though the messaging apps such as whatsapp have no problem with this.
Yeah, the carriers shot themselves in the foot here trying to monetize this and they opened the flood gates for replacements to come to fruition.
I was hoping when I first learnt about RCS that it could be an alternative to Meta owning everyone's comminications channels, but I've given up that hope a fair while ago.
That's not true at all. Random data point. Estonia. I have a _single_ contact that uses WhatsApp. Everybody else is reachable via FB Messenger/Discord/SMS/Signal/Google Chat/Instagram.
China is always an exception,but they are locked partially out of the whole internet
There is a rumor when both companies tried to enter the Indian market: Whatsapp won.
WeChat assumes there is good reception and fast data transfer anywhere so there is no need to compress pictures and videos.
Whatsapp could be passed as Android APK between phones. And it resizes and recompresses every picture you send.
So thats my guess why WhatsApp won 1/6 of the planets pooulation in India.
The rest of the world is on WhatsApp and doesn't even know what RCS messaging is.
But here in North America,we like pain.