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WhatsApp is by far the most used messaging app in Brazil. Almost all businesses use it for client interaction. Large businesses even have virtual assistants dealing with clients instead of using web based chat.

It is used within government (as an informal way of communicating). Even some parts of the justice system uses WhatsApp to notify plaintiffs or witnesses.

I would dare say it is the most important online based tool currently in use in day to day life in Brazil.
 
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As an American working for a Global Company in Asia. I have to use iMessage, Line, Kakotalk, WhatsApp, and Signal for all of our Out-of-Band discussions that we don't want on the corporate MS Teams. I literally juggle 6 chat apps every single day as part of my workflow, depending on who I'm talking to and when. Its really a huge pain in the ass lol.
 
kyjaotkb said:
Finally! Always fascinating to see reactions from Americans on here re: Whatsapp. Here in London, 95% of my contacts use iPhones and yet I exclusively use Apple Messages for 2FA codes and tracking updates. Virtually all green bubbles. Funny how iMessage quietly died down over the years. I know a few Apple hardcore fans who use iMessages but for the most part, Whatsapp is the universal app here.

Now it would be great if the 3-4 spyware apps (can you believe they still ise McAffee) my company installs on my M1Pro MBP moved to AS. The constant use of Rosetta means I never had more than 4.5 hours of battery on my 14-inch.
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McAfee has a Mac app?!
 
SoldOnApple said:
In Australia no one really uses WhatsApp, probably because every mobile plan here has unlimited text messages and Australia has never charged to receive texts. Foreigners will tend to use it here, but WhatsApp is strongly associated with scammers in Australia in my experience.
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Interesting! Do you guys use your default texting apps, the same way we do here in the US?
 
SoldOnApple said:
In Australia no one really uses WhatsApp, probably because every mobile plan here has unlimited text messages and Australia has never charged to receive texts. Foreigners will tend to use it here, but WhatsApp is strongly associated with scammers in Australia in my experience.
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I must be living in a different version of Australia to yours.
Everyone around me uses WhatsApp for group messages. I am curious to know how else group messaging can work with a mixed iOS-Android situation...
 
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Good. The App currently runs like crap. Slow to open.

lol at the comments saying no one uses it in Australia or that it’s not common in the US.

I use it in both places and also Europe. It’s the most compatible messaging outside regular SMS, and much easier than that for international messaging as you don’t need to worry about country codes or fees or messages that arrive an hour late.
 
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barkomatic said:
I live in the States and use WhatsApp to talk to my friends in other countries that don't have iPhones. I don't know why people assume that something they don't personally use must be bad.
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Really? I don’t use personally use heroin, but I’m pretty confident it’s bad.

I don’t personally use any Meta products, because I know about their business model and practices.
 
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R3k said:
lol at the comments saying no one uses it in Australia or that it’s not common in the US.
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It’s not exactly up for debate… the majority of Americans and Aussies don’t use it. 🤷‍♂️

www.statista.com

WhatsApp market share worldwide by country 2022| Statista

Who uses WhatsApp the most? The top markets for the popular chat app correspond to two of the countries with the largest internet audience: Brazil and India.
www.statista.com www.statista.com
 
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goobot said:
No one outside of Europe seems to use it for the most part. Why Europe seems to use it so much is beyond me.
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Huh that’s not true at all lol it is used for everything in Latin America. My sister booked her whole wedding stuff via WhatsApp for Business in Mexico. I also saw the logo all over the Philippines and India. The UAE as well
 
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Why is it not out of beta it’s been in beta for ages it should be ready
 
The intel version crashed frequently for me, and took ages to open.

Just downloaded the public universal beta. Opens instantly. No crashes (yet! fingers crossed). All good so far!
 
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SoldOnApple said:
In Australia no one really uses WhatsApp, probably because every mobile plan here has unlimited text messages and Australia has never charged to receive texts. Foreigners will tend to use it here, but WhatsApp is strongly associated with scammers in Australia in my experience.
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you dont know what are you talking about...now messages are not just text, but with movies/photos and so on
And how can you know what millions of australian do ?
 
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WhatsApp belongs to Facebook and is pretty bad from a privacy point of view. Convenience is not everything. There are better alternatives like Signal, but macrumors rarely reports about them.

"The greater threat to privacy on WhatsApp, however, comes from another place: It is the metadata that reveals as much about people as the content of their conversations."
netzpolitik.org

Metadaten: Wo das eigentliche Privacy-Problem von WhatsApp liegt

Hat WhatsApp ein Problem mit der Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung? Ein Investigativbericht aus den USA legt das fälschlicherweise nahe. Deutsche Medien greifen die Meldung auf und übernehmen das schwierige Framing. Darüber gerät die eigentliche Gefahr aus dem Blick. Ein Kommentar.
netzpolitik.org netzpolitik.org

www.propublica.org

How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users

WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.
www.propublica.org www.propublica.org
 
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I don’t like WhatsApp. I use it because so many people use it.

One example of why I don’t like it: I’m in a WhatsApp group with a bunch of people I don’t know (school group). Then suddenly people in this WhatsApp group appear as “suggested friends” on FB even though we have 0 mutual friends.
 
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Love-hate 🍏 relationship said:
WhatsApp is end to end encrypted , and has been for a while , way before iMessages(iCloud) which just got end to end , lol
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end to end encrypted lol, ALL the other things besides the actual message IS NOT. They also link the IG & FB to the data they gather on Whatsapp. So they don't know what you're saying, but they do know to whom you are sending it, when and from where and who that person is on IG & FB....
 
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Love-hate 🍏 relationship said:
They claim it is , you think they’re lying ? I dunno

If end to end encrypted it means they don’t have access to it . Same for apple in iOS 16.3
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For one thing, I don't trust Facebook. For another, it more or less doesn't matter. Because what Facebook is interested in is the metadata. Who knows whom.

Frixos said:
I don’t like WhatsApp. I use it because so many people use it.
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Even though many use it, I still don't use it.

My experience: Signal is the messenger most likely to be accepted as an alternative by WhatsApp users.

Frixos said:
One example of why I don’t like it: I’m in a WhatsApp group with a bunch of people I don’t know (school group). Then suddenly people in this WhatsApp group appear as “suggested friends” on FB even though we have 0 mutual friends.
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This is bad. Metadata
 
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