Here in South Europe people mostly use Viber. Edit: I was very unaware about situation in Southern Europe as I’ve learned from this post… Most people in Croatia use Viber!
Here in South Europe people mostly use Viber. Edit: I was very unaware about situation in Southern Europe as I’ve learned from this post… Most people in Croatia use Viber!
Really? People pay for short, unencrypted messages that can barely handle accented characters, let alone media, when there are free alternatives that are much better in the vast majority of scenarios?
Or is free sms a common thing in people’s phone plans?
Almost all phone plans have unlimited texting. Or at least it seems that way.
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I’ve had unlimited sms since before I had a smart phone.
It outsmarted them.
My plan is $25/month for unlimited talk, text, and 5g data.
Pay per text plans only seemed to exist up until like 2010 at the latest.
The problem in the US is that the iPhone has a huge amount of the market and iMessage mostly does that already. For Android to counter that you have to use a 3rd party app, which further fractures an already smaller market. Or everyone could just use sms which is free with basically every plan nowadays, which gets you by.
Well most messages can be understood without accented characters and SMS is dependable to work on all devices.