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Some countries (India, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia) run entirely on WhatsApp including payments.

If you want to book a doctor's appointment you don't call and talk to an AI chat bot you message them on WhatsApp.

Signal was starting to gain traction until they dumped text message support and people were like, "well if I need two apps now I'll just drop Signal"

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In Brazil, communications do run entirely on WhatsApp, but payments are entirely on Pix.

Also I rememeber when there was a Meta-wide outage, and people switched to Telegram within the day, so the stranglehold they have might not be that strong.

> If you want to book a doctor's appointment you don't call and talk to an AI chat bot you message them on WhatsApp.

It’s so rare to come across it in India, I can say - there’s no such thing.

>It's so rare to come across it in India, I can say - there’s no such thing.

WhatsApp payments are only offered [1] in four countries (including India) it can't be "no such thing"

[1]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1293279751500598

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