The US is straight out of a dystopia from an European perspective.
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Dystopia = everyone must buy an iphone as solution to the problem instead of just using an app that's not restricted to iphones
Two options: - everyone installs an app that can deal with multiple vendors (like 90% of the messengers) - everyone that is not having a phone of vendor x gets a new phone from vendor x and throws away the old one (or keeps both lol)
The former is almost for free and the latter costs hundreds of dollars .
It's so much worse that you cannot even make out this difference