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      Basically no one in North America, or at least the US, uses those. Every phone comes with SMS text built into it; there’s basically no issue going between carriers, and numbers are easy. WhatsApp is very useful for people who might be messaging across country lines, or to a phone that’s not from the same country. That’s not an issue here, so no one bothers.

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          And no one in the US uses a third party app including android users and thus no way to msg ppl you know on these third party apps.

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    Clickbait/false title. You can do exactly this on any Android/Windows device with the Beeper app, along with your other accounts (Instagram, FB, etc.) Last I checked there’s a wait-list but it doesn’t take too long to get through it.

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    What would this be using? Something like matrix or beeper? I’m sure you could replicate this at home fairly easily.

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      fairly easily

      Software engineers always bandy this phrase around and then take 53 hours of coding to reach a proof of concept

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    “OFFICIAL” … THIS AS “UNOFFICIAL” AS A IMESSAGE APP CAN BE, UNLESS THEIRS 1 THAT HAS A RANDOM GUY ON THE OTHER END TYPING IT INTO A REMOTE MACBOOK HIMSELF

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    I have an Iphone and dont care about Imessage at all, I dont get it why in America is so popular

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      It’s because it’s native, video and photo quality is apparently better, it syncs across devices and most young people in America have iPhones.

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    People still use SMS nowadays? In Singapore, most people only use SMS for OTP and some notifications. We have move on to WhatsApp, Wechat and Telegram long time ago.

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    They are just skinning an app called sunbird. I have it as an alpha user. It works but can be glitch.