It’s not just about market share. In Scandinavia about 90% of middle class people use iphones, but this whole blue-green bubble nonsense is a total non-issue. We have group chats in whatsapp, fb messages or sms, nobody cares.
Despite that, I am yet to hear about their version of the whole “blue bubble exclusion” controversy. It could definitely be just due to the japanese users not being super active on western internet, and not necessarily due to that controversy not being a thing in Japan. But it could just be a non-issue in Japan.
Can anyone with knowledge of this chime in?
0. https://www.pcmag.com/news/ios-more-popular-in-japan-and-us-...
Thanks to your point, this way we can easily see that despite SK being android-dominant and Japan being iPhone-dominant, both are not heavily into iMessage and prefer their native super apps instead.
Which provides a solid data point in favor of those claiming that the iMessage proliferation and dominance don’t necessarily have a direct causation stemming from iOS/Android dominance in a given market.
So in practice my wife uses FaceTime quite a bit with her siblings, and falls back to KakaoTalk when needed. Her iMessage usage isn't zero either, but mostly 1:1, group chats happen over KakaoTalk, since you know everyone will be there.
I don't know if similar patterns are seen in Japan.
Out of my friends who moved to Japan, pretty much not a single one of them uses LINE aside from rare one-offs. But with Kakao? Hell, everyone I know who even traveled to SK uses Kakao on regular (not even talking about those who moved there) pretty much as the main app in general for so many different things.
EDIT: oh wow, this sent me down a pretty interesting rabbithole. Apparently 85% of people under 30 in SK had an Android as their first phone, with 53% of those people having switched to iOS since then[0].
0. https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/30-south-korea...
Blue / Green bubble is a total non issue.
We use Telegram or Facebook Messenger.
Facebook Messenger and FB Groups are the main form of comms for School networking.
Whats App is huge in the Uk by all accounts.
I have friends in LA who say the blue / green bubble situation is a non issue for them, and they use Android.
However it might be an issue for other non Middle Ages demographics and so on.
Still, I have a suspicion the drama over bubble colour is hyped up but the US media.
Whoa, citation needed there. I don't use one, and most people I know don't use one.
Regardless, the original point stands regardless of it being 50% or 80%.
Even in the metro you can go days without seeing one.