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I think this mostly tells us you are an American with an Iphone, in Sweden other apps are popular to the point that the Mac media celebrates the release of an WhatsApp beta: https://www.macworld.se/article/2077773/whatsapp-kommer-antl...

I'm Swiss with a Pixel 7 Pro

Swiss datapoint: my whole extended family/friends circle has iPhones and they only use WhatsApp (and FaceTime for video). I'm not even sure I ever heard the name "iMessage" before.

> I'm not even sure I ever heard the name "iMessage" before

Nobody I know colloquially calls it that in the US either. The app is called "messages", and people just call it "texting"... "on an iPhone". I don't think most people even realize it is not SMS/MMS.

> I don't think most people even realize it is not SMS/MMS

Nobody knows what SMS or MMS are either.

Hey I'm also swiss but we have a weird edge case where most people have an iPhone but still use WhatsApp

French here. I still use iMessage for family and friends one to one discussions but group chats are exclusively on WhatsApp here… and I’ve got tons. Too much. For every circle and sometimes more than one per circle depending on the subject. Are US people using iMessage for this ?

> Are US people using iMessage for this?

Often, yes.