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This has to be a US thing, in Switzerland there is not a single person I communicate with using iMessage. It’s WhatsApp or Signal.
It is a US thing. It sucks.
Indeed a US thing, Brazilian here
And a little telegram.
That's because your mobile plans are usually different and you get charged for each SMS, while SMS is typically included for free in mobile plans in the US. Since you have to pay per SMS, people instead use WhatsApp and Signal which don't have a per message charge.
That's a thing of the past. Nowadays, in Switzerland you get everything unlimited for 20 a month.
In the past, messages cost 10 cents on a prepaid plan, so people started using WhatsApp for free messages at some point, and it just kind of... Stayed
You still think people get charged for sms?
America really is behind
I always see that given as a reason but we had unlimited texts in the UK long before smartphones took off and everyone here uses platform agnostic apps.
That’s completely untrue. Unlimited SMS is part of basically any plan. 5 buck prepaid plan has free SMS included.
I haven't seen a limited minute or SMS plan for years in the UK, are you sure you have any idea what you're on about?
In France, there's a telecom that offers unlimited sms for 2e per month.
Don't forget, iMessage is not using SMS. It's like WhatsApp or all other messengers, but Apple only. It uses the same app, but that's it. And yes, no one pays for texts, because all plans have texts included. Some prepaid plans maybe.