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Karunamon
on Jan 26, 2022
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Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phon...
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Is it too much friction to click to install a third-party messaging client?
Yes. This is why defaults matter. In this case, it generated a network effect.
kaladin-jasnah
on Jan 26, 2022
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Clearly not in Europe or India or China. First world problems, I guess.
Karunamon
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Countries where iPhones are less dominant and the Android SMS app is the default - so we see people using Whatsapp or equivalent.
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Yes. This is why defaults matter. In this case, it generated a network effect.